re: Can Israel destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities?

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was envisioning some kind of small special forces like team or teams with air cover.

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Given how secure the Natanz facility is, I just don’t know how it would work without a suicide mission.

Natanz is hundreds of miles deep into Iran. Almost dead center if you look at it on a map.

Maybe Israel could knock out air defenses long enough to insert a small group, but nothing that could mount a large assault on Iran’s most secretive and defended nuclear facility. And that’s before getting to Iran’s military on the ground.

Putting in a force that large would almost certainly require a conventional invasion of troops. Israel doesn’t really have the numbers or military set up for that. Their capabilities and quality is very good, but the IDF is a relatively small force that doesn’t have power protection options. Iran is a country of 90,000,000.