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Tell me why this is a dumb question - even just strategically, why commit to the US specifically bombing Iran?

What’s the advantage of the US explicitly doing it instead of just letting Israel do it and giving them stuff they need?

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Assuming you believe that destroying the nuclear infrastructure existential, Iran's Fordow nuclear site is 300 ft underground. Only way to destroy it is this weapon. US B-2 bomber only plane that do that.

(Not resolved in this attack: where is the existing highly enriched uranium, is there a secret unknown enrichment site, Iranians can rebuild program in the future)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP

yeah basically the US can't work around it with rethorics because it's a bomb and plane they only have, and not like they can -rent- it to israel and make iran believe that's not the same exact thing than bombing it themselves...

israel seems comitted to bombing fordow either way tho, so the US could let them try by their own

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It's moot now, but the Israelis don't have any air-based capabilities that could handle a target 300 ft underground. Would have had to do a commando raid which is very high risk given the distance from Israel.