Originally Posted by
TURIN
Iran or any other country for that matter is never going to use a nuclear device as a first strike offensive weapon. It would be absolute suicide.
The same can be said for hijacking and slamming airliners into skyscrapers, the Pentagon etc. etc. The response is always going to be overwhelming and on an industrial scale that your society cannot even think about matching. And yet....... it happens.
Your error is that not everyone views the world from a western Judaeo-Christian mindset. Whether an individual decides to run amok with a machete which will end in their near certain death or an organisation chooses to commit an atrocity that will unleash revenge across a multi-faceted array of intelligence, resources and co-operation with 21st century technology, the same parameters apply. To a very different mindset, the act is always more important than the consequences.
In some parts of the world, it is still the middle ages and those guys have some rather nasty toys and a particular set of beliefs.