Iran to unveil 'great nuclear achievements'

[Rath]

SpartenOmega117 said:

Rath said:

Mr Khan said:

Rath said:
I also personally don't like Israel having nukes. The more countries in the Middle East with nukes the less stable it is.

At least between the USA and the USSR the divide was idealogical, a fanatical religious divide seems far more dangerous to me. I don't know if M.A.D. is enough to stop fanatics from lobbing nuclear weapons around.

People only resort to violence if A: they are reasonably sure they can get what they want with it or B: they feel they have nothing to lose. Iran is really in neither position, or at least the Iranian leadership itself is not.

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That applies to Iran in its current position (and also Israel in its current position). The Mid-East is so volatile and Iran isn't particularly stable. God knows what could happen down the track, whatever happens I'm pretty sure it'd be safer without Iran having nukes.

so why is the U.S. and many other countries allowed to have nukes but Iran isn't? I'm pretty sure the president of iran is not that dumb to actually launch them missle. This is proabably just an attempt to gain some power in world politics.

I don't like the USA (or anyone) having nukes. But the USA, Britain, France, Russia and China it's hard to imagine them getting into a situation where somebody who would use the nukes would get into the position where they could use them. With Israel, India, North Korea, Pakistan and Iran (especially the last three of these) it's not beyond imagination that somebody could get into a position to use them who might use them - despite the consequences.