With the Hamas conflict getting started now Israel will be ready in the spring or late winter to deal with Iran. Iran has expanded its enrichment capacity and is enriching uranium at a pace that would bring it to what Israel has declared an unacceptable red line in just over seven months, according to a report by the UN nuclear watchdog. The International Atomic Energy Agency also found that Iranian technicians had removed the fuel rods from the country's only functioning nuclear power station at Bushehr, suggesting the new reactor has serious problems. Iran did not tell IAEA inspectors what those problems were. The IAEA quarterly report on Iran's nuclear programme was released just days before the expected launch of a new diplomatic initiative to resolve the international impasse over the issue. It also comes soon after Israeli official stated that the red line drawn by Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, during his UN appearance in September, represented 240kg of 20%-enriched uranium, enough to make a warhead if further enriched to weapons grade. The sensitivity of 20% uranium figure is that it can be turned into weapons grade relatively fast and easily. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/16/iran-uranium-enrichment-red-line
They have hundreds of nuclear weapons. What are they for if not to defeat a threat to their country's very existence? Israel can put iran back into the Stone Age. No one would complain much if they did.