Originally Posted by
TURIN
Yes, that's called a deterrent. It's the reason we have nuclear weapons. The reason we don't have Russian military assets positioning throughout the North Sea threatening to bomb the hell out of London. FAFO.
I have no love for the regime in Iran but to suggest they want nuclear weapons to deliver a strike against an enemy risking total annihilation for their entire country is nonsense.
I didn’t say it wasn’t a deterrent. But that is not all it might be. What I said, and what I maintain to be the case, is that Iran should never be allowed to develop operational nuclear weapons because of the ideological mindset which would control their use. First or second strike - the mushroom cloud is just the same! Put Iran in a situation where it knows it is about to lose a conventional war and ask yourself if you are 100% confident that Iran’s ideology would prevent it from going out with a big yellow flash!
As has already been correctly pointed out to you, your last sentence, to use your vernacular, is absolute tosh. That is precisely what Iran would be prepared to do. You are falling into the trap of judging Iran and trying to predict its actions and responses based on western values. Iran doesn’t run on western values!