The threat of Israeli "nukes"?

They have supposedly had them since 1964 yet have never threatened to use them against anybody? Listening to the rhetoric coming out of the major Arab states at that time (no translational problems regarding exact intent there Kevin) that would have been a good time to threaten the use of nuclear weapons to counter aggression. Again in 1973 seven days into the Yom Kippur War might have been a good time but no threat was ever made.

Basically the Iranians were caught out and exposed by Mossad who leaked details relating to what was going on at Natanz and at Qom.

Iran being part of the "Atoms for Peace" programme was entitled to receive technical and material assistance. Throughout the time Iran was building Natanz and Qom they were negotiating with Russia to purchase fuel rods for their nuclear reactor, via Dr.A.Q.Khan they got designs for nuclear warheads and for uranium enrichment centrifuges, all this information they were passing on to both Libya and to Syria.

Had the covers not been blown on Natanz and Qom, Iran, Libya and Syria would have built something like six low yield tactical nuclear devices, these would have been smuggled into Israel and exploded. No rocket launches, no ramping up of politicial tensions, just six detonations to be blamed on either Hamas or Hezbollah or some other group. Iran the only country apart from Pakistan who might be suspected would with the aid of the IAEA be able to prove that all fissile material obtained from Russia was present and accounted for.

Result Israel "wiped off the face of the map"; "the stain of Israel would have expunged from arab lands".

Unfortunately for Iran the truth about its secret uranium enrichment programme came out just about the time Saddam Hussein in Iraq got the message and Iran reportedly temporarily halted its nuclear weapons programme - Why?? Because having been deiscovered they now had to find a means to deliver it in self defence - so they concentrated on missiles, they have now launched a satellite into space with both statellite and launch vehicle being "homegrown", the demonstration was not lost on the Russians, or the French who are now firmly in range of any Iranian ballistic missile. Very soon so will the USA.