Iran's president has allegedly said that he wants to blow up Israel. While the translation of his actual comment is in dispute, he has no interest in committing this act. Any bombs dropped upon Israel would be followed by enough firepower from the United States to take Iran off the map. What kind of leader has no followers?
Iran undoubtedly noticed that the United States dropped bombs on its neighbor Iraq, which had no weapons of mass destruction and presented no threat to them. What better way to deter the U.S. from attacking than to have available ways to retaliate? In fact, the United States has never attacked a nation which it knew to have nuclear weapons.
Some fear that Iran would give nuclear weapons to terrorists, who in turn could attack the United States with them. But if this scenario were to play out, the United States could track the terrorists back to Iran. Iran has no interest in this outcome as it parallels the potential problem mentioned earlier with Israel.
Nations are incapable of carrying out their ideals and feeding their people if they fail the test of survival. Iran would be foolish to betray the highest level of the Maslow hierarchy of needs because it wanted to make some point with nuclear weapons.
Ironically, the United States has lost its ability to impose itself on the rest of the world because of the presence of the nuclear club that it started. Our past actions gave the green light for smaller nations to threaten our dominance.
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