Certainly Seymour Hersh is not out of his mind, nor is he simply making up tales to frighten us with. Mr. Hersh is a serious journalist who must at least believe what he writes and at the very least has based his critique on real sources, however doubtful their credentials. I will further assume that his commentary was an attempt to dissuade the American government from any military attack on Iran’s nuclear program, and as an advocacy journalist, Mr. Hersh has every right to do this.
However, having said all this, it must be made absolutely clear that for me and many others, Iran is now the greatest, most concrete, most immediate, and most serious military threat to the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Iran has already surrounded Israel with it’s proxies Hizballah in the North, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, certain parts of the Palestinian controlled areas in the West, and of course, the Syrian armed forces.
Iran is continuing to finance, arm, equip, and train these various armies and militias, as well as the various terrorist groups throughout the region for use in Iran’s upcoming war against Israel but also for use against American interests and America’s other allies in the Middle East.

It seems that the only thing missing from the Iranian military battle planning is their nuclear ballistic missile program, which we all know is going full speed ahead and is probably unstoppable.
I posit unstoppable because the Iranians have dispersed the program in especially hardened sites throughout Iran, thus making it difficult to for any attacking force to even find it’s many sites much less hit them successfully.
Moreover, the Iranian air and civil defence forces have been preparing for any attack, by Israel or the US, for at least the past year, thus making a surprise attack on Iran’s nuclear program a near impossibility and which could well turn into a route for the attacking forces.
Indeed, any military attack on Iran’s nuclear program by Israel or the US, whether successful or as is more likely not, would certainly cause major disruptions in the worlds oil supply making the price of a barrel of oil skyrocket.
Furthermore, even an unsuccessful American, or as is more likely an Israeli, air attack on Iran would almost certainly lead to an all out attack on Israel by Iran and her proxies. Thus along with the inevitable international isolation and condemnation of the Israeli attack which would almost certainly follow, Israel could well be forced to fight a three front war which she just might not be able to win, while at the same time the rest of the Middle East is going up in flames after Iran sets her terrorist network into motion.
For me, as an Israeli American Jew, the most hideous and tragic aspect of this entire conundrum is that I remain convinced that Iran is planning to throw the entire world into an Armegeddon type war just as soon as they complete the production of a nuclear ballistic missile.
But I also wholeheartedly believe that if Iran suffers a military attack before then, she will definitely unleash every force at her disposal to try to destroy at least Israel, and try to throw the rest of the world into complete and irreversible economic, social, political, and military chaos. God help us!

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Yes, he probably believes it, and of course he can write whatever he wishes, as we all can. It’s up to the rest of us to sort it out, at which the blogosphere excels.

I rather doubt that Iran is remotely ready for war with either the US or Israel. That little charade of digging–or announcing that they are digging–more than three hundred thousand graves along the Iraqi border, that’s the sort of thing that’s done by people who are trying to stall for more time, hoping to get the bomb and thus deter us. And of course they could just be laying mines.

One thing we know, however: the attacks against Israel and the United States will keep coming, at times and places of Iranian choosing. They have been waging war for nearly thirty years and will not stop now.