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To: bentway who wrote (324415)	2/5/2007 3:02:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575737

Iran might not be very likely to actually use a nuke, but I think it would be more likely than the current nuclear powers. (and yes I know the US did use 2 nukes, but the situation was very different in 1945). Even if they don't actually make a nuclear attack they can use bluffing and intimidation with the nukes, everything from blatant nuclear blackmail, to the more likely subtle threats. The more blatant the more dangerous the actions or threats are to Iran, and so perhaps the less likely Iran is to carry them out, but even the possibility of very blatant action can't reasonably be totally discounted, and even more subtle intimidation can be problematic. Also Iran getting nukes would encourage further proliferation.