There are lots of reasons for Iran to have a nuclear program that does not result in a nuclear weapon. Nuclear power seems to be an obvious one.
Once they test, then you can worry about them getting a bomb. Because you need more than just a bomb. You need one that you can deliver. You and your buddies seem to think this is an easy thing to do. It isn't. Just look at the NorKs. They still haven't gotten one to work right. Even if they did, they couldn't deliver it. Y'all just have no idea the technology that is involved. Even the Israelis had to test, and they stole everything they needed from the best, us.
But, ok. Say Iran did build a bomb without testing. What would they do with it? Nuke us? We'd wipe them out. Not only do we have a lot of bombs, we can put them anywhere on the planet we desire. Nuke Israel? Israel has somewhere between 150 and 300 world-class bombs. While they can't place them in the same places we can, they've got the ME pretty well covered. In either case, Iran cannot cripple either us or the Israelis enough to stop a counter-strike. I can assure you that the Iranians know this.
Here is what stratfor.com has to say about it.
All of this is happening at the same time that nuclear negotiations appear to be coming to some sort of closure. The United States is not really concerned about Iran's nuclear weapons. As I have said many times, we have heard since the mid-2000s that Iran was a year or two away from nuclear weapons. Each year, the fateful date was pushed back. Building deliverable nuclear weapons is difficult, and the Iranians have not even carried out a nuclear test, an essential step before a deliverable weapon is created. What was a major issue a few years ago is now part of a constellation of issues where U.S.-Iranian relations interact, support and contradict. Deal or no deal, the United States will bomb the Islamic State, which will help Iran, and support the Saudis in Yemen, which will not.
stratfor.com
The article is about the balance of power in the ME. Worth reading in its entirety.
And considering the fact that Iran is already waging proxy wars against Israel
That is Israel's problem. Not ours. And not really relevant even if it was our problem. I mean, they are also competing with the Saudis and the Turks over spheres of influence in the ME. Iran wants to be the power in the ME. With Iraq out of the picture, and the Turks sitting on their hands, there isn't much to stop them. The Saudis want to, to the point they are exposing some princelings to danger in Yemen, but there aren't enough of them.
and the fact that Iranians continue to shout "Death to America" and "Death to Israel,"
It keeps the rubes at home entertained. They were shouting the same things back when Reagan was trading with them. |
