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The more countries with a nuclear deterrent, the less advantage countries who already wield nuclear power have.
Iran also explicitly regards the US as its primary enemy(regime change says what) and has been historically unwilling to kowtow to US demands, which really upsets imperialists.
…. The more likely someone is to use them.
While the current nuclear powers haven’t always behaved well, the last thing we need is higher likelihood of someone using nuclear weapons. I do t co do e the attack nor believe the stated justification but I agree that it would be bad for more countries to be able to use nuclear weapons
There is only one country on this planet with nukes that has used them, on civilian targets, twice.
“mutually Assured Destruction” may not yet have destroyed humanity but it’s insane to think it’s desirable.
the only time nukes have been used is when 1 side had them, it would seem the more forces that have them the less likely they are to be used
That is really naive
The Iranian government identifies Israel as its number 1 enemy. The USA is second and it's because the USA has historically protected Israel. Antisemitism is an ancient drug.
I was with you until the last statement; it’s not antisemitism; pretty much everyone in the mid east is “Semitic”. It’s being against a nation who lives on land that they believe is rightfully theirs, persecuting and outright genociding people of a shared sect of their religion.
They don’t want to nuke Israel, because they want the land; they don’t want to kill all Jews (other than the far right agitators that seem to pop up everywhere), they want to destroy the nation of Israel.
This makes things a bit messy because if Israel ceased to be a country and Palestine took over tomorrow, Iran would rejoice, but then they’d likely try expanding into surrounding countries, and at least some would want to absorb Palestine into Iran.
They’d also have to come to grips with the US, who has been the great satan for two generations now. Iran has defined itself in relation to the US in the meantime.
Meanwhile, most people living in Iran identify themselves as Persian, and don’t consider this their fight. And the Persian diaspora is pretty large.
White European colonists are not semitic.
Iranians/Persians are white European colonists?
Israelis