THE SHOAH OF IRAN. That is the title of an editorial in Investor's Business Daily:

The biblical term "Shoah" means "destruction" in Hebrew and was used by European Jews early on in referring to the Nazis' genocide of their people. Speaking to veterans in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday, Bush cautioned that "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who both denies the Nazis' mass murder of Jews and promises to wipe the state of Israel off the map, announced on Tuesday that Iran would fill the vacuum in Iraq that would result in the event of a U.S. withdrawal.

The editorial quotes a study that claims that the US has not put the onus of stopping Iran on Israel's shoulders after all:

A new paper from the University of London's Center for International Studies and Diplomacy concludes: "The U.S. has made military preparations to destroy Iran's WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order." While there is unlikely to be an invasion of troops, the attack would go beyond destroying only nuclear facilities, according to the report, because that "would leave Iran too many retaliatory options." [emphasis added]

A copy of the report [PDF] is available here; there is also a summary of the report.
We can only hope that the report is true--and that such an attack will be unnecessary.

Technorati Tag: Israel and Iran and Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher and US.