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>>Rather optimistic of them to involve their airforce. When Israel goes, the Iranian airforce will be smoldering on the ground before the first bunker-buster penetrates. These guys would be punching *waaay* about their weight.
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>Do you think today Iranians are Egypt under Naser ? Or Iraq under Saddam ?
>I wld suspect that the best of their airforce is hidden just as good as their nuclear facilities.
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>I don't believe an attack on Iran would achieve anything, nor it is even going to happen.

You may be quite right, but a "hidden" airforce isn't going to do them much good. Nuclear facilities can live underground but an airforce needs to ... well, get some air <s> They are very short on refining capacity which will limit training, their armed forces are laboring under the same kind of "commissar" system that was so deliterious to the USSR under Stalin and while not rising to Arab levels they still have the cultural disadvantage of confusing bombast with power.

Religious fervor will provide human waves to clear mine fields but won't do much good against Israeli air power.

I have a great deal of respect for the Iranians as a people and as a culture but I don't think they are being ruled by "the best and the brightest" ... though I suppose that means they are very much like the rest of mankind <bg>