Israel-Iran War

Cook

Banned
We're doing well so far - only one accusation of Israeli war crimes so far, and everyone's mostly ignoring it.

By the way, I want to be clear: Israel can't be an apartheid state and imposing war crimes at the same time. Either the Palestinians are Israeli nationals, being oppressed in an apartheid state, or there's a military occupation, and we can have war crimes. We can't do both at once!:p

Don’t you go bringing your reason, logic and facts round here mate, it just makes them angrier.
:rolleyes:
 
Ahmadinejad has no power over the military. If Iran is going to nuke anybody, the decision is up to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

On the other hand, Khamenei clearly supports Ahmadinejad at least a little, or else he wouldn't be in office. How much influence he has with the Supreme Leader is hard to say, though. It's also in large part up to the generals, and I frankly know nothing about Iran's internal military politics.
 

Cook

Banned
Ahmadinejad has no power over the military. If Iran is going to nuke anybody, the decision is up to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

So ah my dinner jacket is the President but has no power over the nation's military?
Bit of a contradiction that.
 

Cook

Banned
If you don't believe me, you can read the Constitution of Iran yourself. Khamenei is supreme commander of the armed forces, with the power to declare peace or war.

No, I’ll take your word on it.
Just surprised he’s still called the President and not Prime Minister or just “Chief Nutball in the loony bin”.
That last title probably wouldn’t fit on his door anyway.
 

Cook

Banned
If you don't believe me, you can read the Constitution of Iran yourself. Khamenei is supreme commander of the armed forces, with the power to declare peace or war.

More seriously, do they actually work on the basis of their constitution or just ignore it?

Australia’s Constitution has the Governor General as Commander in chief of the Army and doesn’t even have a position of Prime Minister, in reality things run somewhat differently.

And the old Soviet Constitution guaranteed Political and religious freedom.
 
More seriously, do they actually work on the basis of their constitution or just ignore it?

Australia’s Constitution has the Governor General as Commander in chief of the Army and doesn’t even have a position of Prime Minister, in reality things run somewhat differently.

And the old Soviet Constitution guaranteed Political and religious freedom.

I don't know. But even if it was ignored, the president has very little power anyways.
 
Has anyone told Him that?
He’s certainly a noisy little muppet.
:p
Sorry.
He does seem to talk up his capabilities to his electorate then.

That's because he has a few screws loose. I always picture Khamenei facepalming while watching his speeches on TV.
 
Bush Jr in the hotseat?

Also Sharon as Israeli PM.

But IOTL when W. Bush was placed in the hot seat re: Israel wanting to strike against Iran he managed to convince them not to. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=israel%20iran&st=cse

Sharon is a factor but PM Shamir was no dove himself.

Maybe I came off as too harsh in my assessment, I'm not completely discounting your ideas as ASB, but I do think that if OTL is any indication that Israel would hold back.

The fact that the warhead's explosive yield is a couple kilotons larger perhaps?

I don't think that Minchandre was suggesting a strike of that magnitude. to quote him: "Though casualties are minimal (a few hundred at most), Israel is very, very angry and launches their own campaign against Iran over American protests." Its my impression that the Iranian attack he's proposing is comparable to Saddam's actions in GW 1 not some kind of Iranian WMD.
 
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