The threat of retaliation could also include an end to Iran's freeze of ultra-sensitive uranium enrichment -- a process used to make reactor fuel but which can also make the explosive core of a nuclear weapon.

Top Iranian officials, who maintain the nuclear drive is for strictly peaceful purposes only, have already threatened such retaliation if Iran is referred to the Security Council.
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/...fx2347131.html

Their missles can hit basically anywhere in the Middle East and also a good part of Europe. When OTHER nations are turned into glass then what? Blame the U.S. for not responding to the threat early enough?