Can Israel destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities?

I have more curiosity about how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

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Can bombs and missiles do the job or will they have to put boots on the ground?

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That’s not even in the cards. Israel doesn’t have the capability to put an effective force on the ground in Iran.

Do you mean at all or to hold the entire country? For instance, do they not have the ability to assault the facility with ground forces? I'm not up on Israeli military capabilities.

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For instance, do they not have the ability to assault the facility with ground forces? I'm not up on Israeli military capabilities.

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I don’t know how Israel would be able to assault Iran’s most fortified and secure facility with ground troops without committing their forces to a suicide mission. How would they even get there? HALO drop? Helicopter? Dozens or Hundreds of miles inside Iran?

Hell, I don’t know how the US would pull that off.

Life isn’t a Tom Clancy novel.

Outside of extremely small and covert operations in coastal or border regions, I don’t see how the IDF could put boots on the ground at all.

It was a simple question. No need to be defensive. I'm interested in knowing what you meant and what it's based on. If you don't care to actually discuss that, I'm good.

Drop a couple MOABs and nothing with soft tissue would want to be in that area.

Multiple facilities are deep inside mountains. Might be able to destroy entrances and trap them in.

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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.

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I would envision that being the way this would have to go. I still remember when the world got hit with stuxnet.

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As you probably know, stuxnet attacked this same facility.

And we did that because we couldn’t even get intelligence assets in there to sabotage it. Hard to imagine Israel inserting commandos etc in that context.

I suppose I could be completely wrong. But if the west, any of the west, had this capability, someone would have done it already.

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

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That’s what I was thinking of also when I said “boots on the ground.”