Iran has no need for nuclear weapons. It was within a week of enriching uranium to weapons grade when the Trump administration brought the war to Iran to end that development. Pragmatically regime change might be required to end the Iranian nuclear weapons program for good.
It is useful to wonder why Iran seeks nuclear weapons since it has no rational need for them and invites interdiction and destruction for trying to build them.
Iran has no enemies that would use nuclear weapons upon it. Israel and Saudi each may have a few nukes yet neither would first strike Iran under any circumstances that have a snowball’s chance of happening. If Iran were to nuke Israel the United States would nuke Iran and there would be few to none that would find that intolerable. Pakistan isn’t going to nuke Iran, and neither are North Korea, China, India, Britain, France, Russia or even the United States unless Iran nukes Israel. If Iran were to nuke a European target once again the United States would probably nuke Iran. Plainly Iran has no rational need for nuclear weapons.
If Iran did develop nuclear weapons and made a pile of them, and some Democrat administration allowed all of that to happen and Iran did attack the United States or European targets once again the United States would retaliate and erase Iran from history as far as the future is concerned. It is unlikely that Iran would succeed in delivering weapons packages to detonate in the continental United States. The United States probably will maintain an edge in anti-missile systems, radiation detection systems and counterstrike structures with porous borders Democrats prefer, being the likeliest avenue of approach for Iran with a chance of success.
So nuclear weapons are not friends of Iran, nor would it help them in bilateral relations advantageously with Israel or other middle Eastern nations. Instead it would probably stimulate a regional arms race to build nuclear weapons and delivery systems that existing nuclear powers might find disconcerting. If the Middle East saw a plethora of nuclear weapons developments, additional regions of the globe might find they too need nuclear weapons in order not to be left behind. Even Japan and Germany might seek to bring their own arms cache’s up to date, and it might take them a few months apiece to reach the stage of being a nuclear power.
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