Ha, ha, ha. What if the real problem is that the U.S. having hallucinations of weapons of mass destruction again?

There is ZERO evidence that Iran is even interested in making nukes and Iran has consistently offered to place additional restrictions on its nuclear program that go well beyond what it is legally required to do — but these offers have been consistently ignored by the US which is using the “Iranian nuclear threat” issue as a pretext for regime change, just as “WMDs in Iraq” was just a pretext and a lie.

There is ZERO evidence that Iran is even interested in making nukes and Iran has consistently offered to place additional restrictions on its nuclear program that go well beyond what it is legally required to do — but these offers have been consistently ignored by the US which is using the “Iranian nuclear threat” issue as a pretext for regime change, just as “WMDs in Iraq” was just a pretext and a lie.

Is seems to me that, as with Pakistan and India, and the US and USSR, the possession of nuclear weapons is a bargaining chip in world diplomacy and may be actually a deterrent to their use. It is the possession of the weapons that is key and not the actual use. The fact is that no one, US or USSR or anyone else who has ever had them has ever used them in 65 years since Japan in 1945. This is not to deny the possibility or that a terrorist could obtain one and use it for some horrific political demonstration. We live with this always now. No one in leadership of any established country, though, could use them without the expectation of total annihilation. We count on this sensibility. In addition, the weapons represent too much political power to be for sale or transfer to anyone other than the possessor.

Let’s examine the practicality of Iran using atomic bombs. If Iran uses a nuclear weapon against Israel the fallout carried by the prevailing winds will surely ruin Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran, itself. It would be more likely that Iran would export their capability to be used somewhere else, such as the United States or Europe. On the other hand, since the US knows where Iran is, and the US possesses 1000 times the nuclear destructive force that Iran ever will, does it seem prudent to threaten us with a bomb in New York or Washington, DC when retaliation is most assured even without our using atomic weapons in turn? We would surely retaliate even with conventional resources. The Gulf Wars have demonstrated that we cannot be defeated on the open battlefield and we will have no reason to want to ‘democratize’ Iran after the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles. What would be Iran’s benefit from the actual use of a nuclear weapon?

It is common knowledge that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. It has also enjoyed the unconditional support of the US. It is also in the history books that Israel will launch a military attack on any perceived threat in any country in the region. It is also history that Israel will take and annex any land it feels it can take with impunity. Given this history, is it any wonder that one or more countries would want to act to counter this threat to them? How would you recognize the intentions of Israel if you were a country adjacent to them? It would seem to me that Iran wants to tip the balance of power in the Middle East.

The possession of nuclear weapons by Iran would blunt the ability of Israel to strike. We have believed that through sanctions and penalties the US can ‘incentivise’ Iran to drop its nuclear program. Not likely, though. On the contrary, when the Iranians have a nuclear weapon, Iran can incentivize the US to force Israel into earnest negotiations with its Middle East neighbors or, at least, neutralize the one-sided situation that has existed since 1948. I am not naïve, however. I do not believe Iran is acting for the good of its neighbors. We will see how this plays-out in the future.

It was also the americans that first used nuclear weapons on a civilian population. Twice.

It is the americans today that are researching the miniaturization of nuclear warheads to make them more useable.

It is the americans/french that proliferated nuclear technology to the Zionists (a religious cult no different than the leaders of Iran) and shelters them from inspection or even so much as declaration.

And yet the americans have the unmitigated gall to point their radioactive fingers at another country?!? Puh-lease!

Iran has every right to have a nuclear bomb. Isreal has nuclear weapons and constantly threatens the Iranian government. It is only logical that they seek a nuclear deterrent.

Just like France (bomb) and UK (bomb). Delusional, but the way of the world.
Worse is Pakistan. Well, India has a bomb so why not Pakistan?
China, Russia, ?N.Korea.

Of course Iran should be allowed the bomb. It won’t use it. It’s a common bit of nationalism.

Bad luck that Israel, Saudi Arabia and by proxy the USA, do not like it. They have to get used to the fact that they no longer control the world.

Iran, so far, has not done anything wrong apart from verbally upsetting Israel, and supporting Hamas and Hezbollah. That may be a crime in the US and their satellites, but not in the minds of balanced people.Israelis know better than anybody else that freedom comes through violence.