Because since 2001 the Iranians have seen Americans playing regime change around them and in one of those cases it was just for shits and giggles as such the Iranians probably put down the Quran long enough to see North Korea sinking South Korean ships and saying "can't touch us we have the bomb"
That is my point. If Iran has the bomb they could sent a proxy force (Hezbollah) to Israel and warn Israel not to invade Lebanon because that will trigger a nuclear war. Pakistan already did that with India.
IF and it is just an if because Iran to date has denied it wants the bomb and to be honest they have probably lied to me the least in the last 30 years so I have no reason not to believe them it is purely for defence or to be even more precise to keep the Americans out.
Iran already did enrich to above 20% and the IAEA was refused to search that (military) facility. They also found proof of research in nuclear capable missiles. Again the IAEA was refused to do some more searches.
I would suggest that this would be a very good reason for Iran and Israel to improve their communications now wouldn't it and since the world has managed to avoid blowing itself to smithereens in the 70 years it has had nuclear weapons a simple telephone call works wonders.
I fully agree. But so far a "hot line" between Israel and Iran does not exist.
Iran into a glowing waste land and if they didn't Britain, Israel or the USA (and that is just the short list of trigger happy countries) would more than likely do it for them, now I accept that does not help Spain but I am prepared to bet that Iran has a leadership that would prefer to live and that will prevent them making Spain glow in the dark.
I know that, but that is not my point. My point is: who has the guts to ignore the threat to use nuclear weapons? If a Quds force blows up something in Paris, will NATO retaliate when Iran has the bomb and threatens to use it? Do you think that there is one poltician who dares to set the threat aside and attack Iran?
@Der Alte :
I don't call myself a specialist and I don't have the degrees the specialists have. What I do know is that history is full of mistakes made by specialists.
Don't get me wrong, I don't call them or you dumb people, they (and you) aren't.
During the 2nd Gulf War there was a Belgian military expert from the KMS (West Point of Belgium) who came to explain what the Americans next steps were. The next day he first had ro explain why the Americans did it differntly. And this happend many times.
Dr Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London
"Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1880s
"The phonograph has no commercial value at all."
Pierre Pachet, British surgeon and Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal (UK), 1957
two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth)
one more : Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and one of the most esteemed scientists in the country. Langley was the only flight experimenter to get government funding. His "aerodrome" was tested twice, launched from a catapult atop a houseboat in the Potomac River — the last test coming just days before the Wright Brothers' flight. The Wright brothers attended high school but did not receive diplomas.
Arrogant Experts
It is not generally realized that computers, atomic bombs, aeroplanes, spaceships, mobile phones, and many other marvels were all forecast by science‑fiction writers long before they were dreamed of by serious experts. Remember the wrist-watch communicator of Dick Tracy in the 1930s? Therefore, I suggest, that anyone who wants to prophesy the future accurately must be either a writer or at least a reader of science fiction.