On the BHP thread in response to another shocked HC poster remarking the need for intervention by God I wrote:
"What an absolutely dreadful, apocolyptic thought! We'd also need Allah, Confucius, Buddha & all their mates to help us out of that one!
Iran has 70m ppl & A GDP pp of ~$12k. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
IMHO all hell would break loose throughout Europe & the Middle East if any of Israel, the US, France etc. etc. were stupid & belligerant enough to launch an attack on Iran. Except for spurious claims from hypocrital nations that already have nukes [one of which has deployed them & freely supplies them to others] that Iran's nuclear plans are a pretext for war there is absolutely no justification for any such act. Words are cheap, war is is not!
Aside from the moral injustice of any such act Iran has much more wealth & power than Iraq with which to defend itself + its strategic alliances with Russia et al.
