Iranian nuclear threat is real

Published February 16, 2005

If Iran does, in fact, develop a nuclear bomb -- the best intelligence estimates for its possible date are 2008 -- the chances of the governing mullahs actually ever using it are infinitesimal. For the sake of killing some Israelis or Americans, the mullahs would, a few hours later, pay the price of their own obliteration and of that of many millions of their countrymen.

Thus, the crisis now rapidly...