# Will US bombs fall on Iran soon? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 5, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541 "2012-08-05T20:00:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/1 "2012-08-05T20:00:01Z")
Just wondering what people think. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/2 "2012-08-05T21:29:56Z")
I voted no. If it happens, it will not occur until after the US presidential election. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/3 "2012-08-05T22:27:09Z")
Not happening unless Iran does something moronic. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/4 "2012-08-05T23:22:22Z")
Agree with QSH. Nothing will happen if status quo continues. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/5 "2012-08-05T23:30:28Z")
I don’t think U.S. bombs would fall before Israeli bombs. I think Israel no longer feels secure with the alliance we have long held. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/6 "2012-08-05T23:39:00Z")
Mein Gott in Himmel, I fucking hope not. I’m sick to death of all this stupid, useless destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/7 "2012-08-05T23:40:45Z")
I think bombs will fall, but they will be kosher bombs. This will be the new Israeli national anthem: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb6nR_kdk9w) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/8 "2012-08-06T00:32:50Z")
Not before Jan. 20. After that, who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/9 "2012-08-06T01:04:38Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Not before Jan. 20. After that, who knows? Exactly, I was going to say get back with me November 7th, but you beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/10 "2012-08-06T04:05:37Z")
If there is a WWIII it’s going to start in the middle east. I think this whole annihilate the jews is going to make it’s ugly appearnce once again. But this time Israel is going to take care of it first before anyone else does. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/11 "2012-08-06T04:20:12Z")
Bombs, yes. But not ours. Whatever Israel does, I don’t blame them. ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/12 "2012-08-06T07:23:20Z")
AFAIC, those people (Israeli zionists and Palestinian jihadists) deserve one another. What a hotbed of hatred and intolerance on both sides. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/13 "2012-08-06T08:00:55Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Not happening unless Iran does something moronic. So you’re saying 100% chance, it’s almost a guarantee they’ll do something moronic. I’ll take this to mean something beyond their day to day insanity. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/14 "2012-08-06T10:23:03Z")
No. The Israelis would not be so foolish as to attack Iran. In the first place, they cannot attack using conventional bombs-Iran is too far away, and the nuclear plants are well defended. That leaves nuclear weapons-and Israel would risk immediate destruction if they used theirs. I predict the status quo will continue…until there is a major “accident” at one of Iran’s enrichment plants-this will (of course) be blamed upon the USA and or Israel. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/15 "2012-08-06T16:41:58Z")
This may qualify as the Dope’s most frequently asked question. Feb. 2012: [Israel ready to attack Iran?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=640814) Nov. 2011: [Is military action against Iran an inevitability?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630103) July 2011: [Israel to attack Iran this fall?!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=616845) July 2010: [Bush’s head of CIA says strike on Iran likely](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=572183) April 2009: [Israeli military is preparing itself to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=514528) October 2008: [Iran forces US jet to land in Tehran; war imminent?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486711) June 2008: [Is Israeli saber rattling toward Iran serious or not?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470939) October 2007: [Go ahead, tell me again how we’re NOT going to war with Iran](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=441575) July 2007: [Cheney pushes Bush to take military action v. Iran](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=429020) December 2006: [Will the U.S. be at war with Iran before January '09?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=402126) January 2005: [Will the U.S. take military action against Iran?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=297457) October 2004: [Is the Bush Admin already planning to “regime-change” Iran?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280486) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/16 "2012-08-06T17:03:29Z")
Not US bombs. Israeli bombs? Maybe. My gut feeling here is that Israel is waiting until they’re sure that the US has their back. They can’t be sure of this with Obama. Romney, OTOH… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-us-bombs-fall-on-iran-soon/630541/17 "2012-08-06T21:01:24Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > . . . That leaves nuclear weapons-and Israel would risk immediate destruction if they used theirs. . . . Immediate destruction from whom, and how? If it were in any way, at all, possible for Israel to be destroyed…it would have been long since. Would any European country launch against Israel in retaliation for a nuclear strike against the Iranian nuclear labs? Would Russia? China? India? Even Pakistan? I just don’t see it. There would be vast condemnation, and very likely serious economic consequences. Even the U.S. would be forced to cut way back on economic support for Israel. Egypt would probably fall into the hands of extremists. It would be BAD! But…the destruction of Israel? How?