Originally posted by: AntareStar
The thing is, Iran is going to get pounded, that's probably almost a fact. It remains though to be seen how.
Israel has been very hesitant to use its force during their last campaign in Lebanon, which led to them paying a fairly high price in terms of casualties and damages. It is commonly acceptable to assume Israel has enough nukes to make most of Iran uninhabitable for the next 50 years or so, while this is a possibility, I don't see Israel taking such a severe measure just yet. If you factor in the fact that Israel is fairly limited on delivering a limited strategic blow (i.e. just damage strategic facilities rather than total destruction) over such a distance, you can rule out Israeli preemptive strike. They are just going to sit this one, and observe closely, they'll only step in when they'll think we're messing it up.
The other alternative which looks like is the one that's going to happen any day now or up to a couple of months from now, is a U.S + coalition (namely England) strike on all Iranians facilities, one of the main goals will be eliminating ASAP Iran's capabilities of long range missiles launch, if they are able to launch anything towards Israel and hit it, you can say Hello nukes, goodbye Iran.
All of the above is a fairly optimistic scenario, Iran is probably fairly powerful, I am afraid that a full scale war with that country is not going to be a walk in the park.
Maybe because of its power, Iran should be more careful, because no matter how strong they are, the forces they are facing are much stronger, and they should go visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki to learn what happens when a bigger power than you is fed up with your sh!t.