[coy bacon]

If Israel nukes Iran, it invites paybacks from much of the Islamic world.

If America nukes Iran, it solidifies it's image in the Muslim world as being anti-Islamic.

I think if Britian, France, China, India, or Russia nukes Iran, nobody cares much.

Iran's nuke facilities are hidden deep in the ground and some are not sure that conventional weapons can destroy them that deep. And, they have scatter their facilities. It could require a ground invasion to insure that they are all taken out.

Big price to pay if you do it conventionally.

Big price to pay if you use nukes.

But if you don't pay the price, the Iranians will use the nukes they develop against the West and Israel.