AS the only nation to ever engage in atomic warfare, and who still maintains a large stockpile of nuclear weaponry, I think it's more than a little absurd to expect another nation, especially one seeking prestige such as Iran, to fore go any nuclear ambition.Whatever you may think of their current regime, the Iranian people have a proud history of tremendous accomplishments. It's for good cause that they may feel a need to finally be recognised by the West as something other than a rag-headed backwater.
I think we are playing a fool's game,here. Give it up, and deal with it. We can start by minding our own business for a change.
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...particularly as they are flanked on the east and west by countries occupied by a hostile power, and are within easy striking distance of another country with a demonstrated willingness to launch preemptive strikes against nuclear capabilities.
You don't have to be a fan of the Islamic Republic (I'm certainly not) to understand the value they'd see in having a nuclear deterrent.
Also, nothing, and I mean nothing would do more to forestall any possibility of liberalization from within the IR than a direct military confrontation with the US.
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