What is the best military option against Iran

[edu]

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/328746/obama-s-iran-policy-risks-global-crash-robert-zubrin Robert Zubrin makes the case that it's best to attack their oil making capacity

Unfortunately Israel’s options for taking out Iran’s nuclear program are much more limited than those possessed by the United States. The U.S. could take out Iran’s underground bomb factories using bunker-busting weapons; the Israelis cannot, at least not reliably in one strike, which is all the chance they would get. The U.S. could knock out the electric-power plants that drive the centrifuges, and keep them knocked out; the Israelis could do the former but not the latter. This leaves the Israelis with only one really dependable military option, and that is to take out Iran’s oil-export terminal on Kharg Island. This facility, which handles over 80 percent of Iran’s oil exports, is a very soft target. Because it consists of rows of huge, thin-walled oil tanks, it would require only a few hits by conventional bombs to turn the whole place into a massive inferno. Without the oil exports that pay for 65 percent of its national budget, the Iranian regime would go bankrupt. Not only its nuclear-bomb program, but the regime itself, would soon cease to exist.

There’s just one little problem: Such a strike would probably send world oil prices to at least $150 per barrel, thereby precipitating a worldwide economic crash. Millions of people on every continent, including this one, would lose their jobs.

A responsible U.S. government would act to prevent such an outcome. Yet the Obama administration seems to be forcing it.

Do you agree with his idea? Or do you have a better suggestion?

[TruthSpreader]

Attacking Bushehr would be our primary goal. It's been our main objective all along.

[edu]

If the current government of Israel has the guts to defy Obama even one time and launch an attack against Iran is a question. But to expect those leaders to defy Obama, for many attacks against Iran seems very unlikely.
So you might be right about our need to attack Bushehr to help the short term threat.
But the long term threat needs to be solved by getting Obama out of office and that is probably best done by sending  world oil prices to at least $150 per barrel, by attacking Iranian oil.
Of course if we had a true right wing government leading Israel it would not make a difference who was leading the USA. But we don't have such a government.

[Rubystars]

Assassinate Ahmadinejad. Of course he's just the figurehead but I think it would help disrupt things some. Then attack militarily by air while they're still reeling from that.

[Zelhar]

Attacking Bushehr would be our primary goal. It's been our main objective all along.

It is not the prime target. The centrifuges and the heavy water reactor as well as the uranium process facilities are the prime targets.

[briann]

[syyuge]

Anything like this is the best military option against Iran.
 

[NoMosqueHere]

I hate Iran -- it has no right to exist as a nation and should be eliminated entirely.  But if Israel attacks Iran, oil prices will double overnight and that bastard Obama will lead a propaganda war against Israel and its supporters.  This is a tough situation.  Our only hope is if Romney wins.  But the american jews support Obama by a 4 to 1 margin and, therefore, he will certainly win New York and probably Florida.  What a people!

[muman613]

I hate Iran -- it has no right to exist as a nation and should be eliminated entirely.  But if Israel attacks Iran, oil prices will double overnight and that bastard Obama will lead a propaganda war against Israel and its supporters.  This is a tough situation.  Our only hope is if Romney wins.  But the american jews support Obama by a 4 to 1 margin and, therefore, he will certainly win New York and probably Florida.  What a people!

I dispute your 4-to-1 ratio. Maybe among secular, non-observant, liberal Jews.... But my experience with Orthodox is that it is as low as 1.5-to-1 {Obama/Romney} and those who still like Obama can still be persuaded. Over the High Holidays I was relieved that almost everyone in my small community was against Obama {and I didn't even have to say a word to start the anti-Obama rants}.