# Could Israel Destroy Iranaina Uranium Enrichment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 25, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180 "2015-07-25T20:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/61 "2015-07-30T08:15:29Z")
Ah, so what Khomeini wants is a Labor government. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/62 "2015-07-30T08:18:00Z")
Khomeini? He’s been dead since '89; he doesn’t want anything anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/63 "2015-07-30T08:32:18Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > Khomeini? He’s been dead since '89; he doesn’t want anything anymore. Or, possibly, for all of these virgins to stop yammering and giggling for one bloody minute. Just one ! CAN WE HAVE SILENCE FOR ONE. MINUTE. ?! ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/64 "2015-07-30T08:35:08Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Or, possibly, for all of these virgins to stop yammering and giggling for one bloody minute. Just one ! CAN WE HAVE SILENCE FOR ONE. MINUTE. ?! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/65 "2015-08-01T15:00:27Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > There might well be a non-zero number of “testosterone poisoned Iranians” who do want to “wipe Israel off the map,” but those people are not in charge. > > As for the quote you’re thinking of, a) the man who said it was voted out of office two years ago, and b), what he said was “Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad,” i.e. “the Imam (i.e. Khomeini) said that the _regime_ occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.” Note the word “regime.” He was calling for regime change, not a second holocaust. So all of this Iranian ranting against Israel is just wrongly-translated phrases? Like Kruschev’s famous “We will bury you” speech? ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/66 "2015-08-02T10:15:25Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > So all of this Iranian ranting against Israel is just wrongly-translated phrases? Like Kruschev’s famous “We will bury you” speech? No, not _all_ of it - Iran is indeed anti-Zionist. But the “wipe Israel off the map” phrase was both wrongly translated, spun and twisted every which way, and blown way out of proportion. ---
**Author:** ![Hiker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3be4f8/32.png) [@Hiker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hiker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/67 "2015-08-02T11:49:04Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > So all of this Iranian ranting against Israel is just wrongly-translated phrases? Like Kruschev’s famous “We will bury you” speech? Certainly not. But still there is the question of how much the belligerent ranting of the more conservative Iranian leaders should be taken at face value. Is this really enough to start a war over? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180/68 "2015-08-02T13:18:52Z")
> [@Hiker](#): > > Certainly not. But still there is the question of how much the belligerent ranting of the more conservative Iranian leaders should be taken at face value. Is this really enough to start a war over? It is enough to worry about Iran bombing Israel if they get one. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-israel-destroy-iranaina-uranium-enrichment/726180.md?page=3)