Best of luck to our neighbours across the Arabian Gulf. Iran has the right to defend iself.
If Iran gets nukes, there will be pressure on rival countries in the region to develop nuclear weapons. Nuclear proliferation is always bad news. This is nothing to cheer on, no matter who you side with.
Opening the floodgates will be good news for the region though. If Iraq or Libya had nukes they wouldn’t have been bombed and invaded. I don’t want to see Iran bombed or invaded. I am from Saudi Arabia, it is in my best interest for Iran to be strong and stable, rival or not, Iran having nukes does that. Of course I also think that Saudi Arabia should have nukes too.
Every country that has nukes means more risk that some loose cannon sets off a nuke. That is why nuclear non-proliferation agreements are so important.
To demonstrate, what if Saddam and Iran had had nukes during the Iran-Iraq War? Saddam used chemical weapons against the Kurds. Would he use nukes? I genuinely don’t know, the man was apparently a psychopath. Would you actually want someone like that to have nukes?
The only country that ever used them is the US. The only countries that its elected politicians regularly threaten to use them are the US and Israel.
Nukes are an inevitability following sanctions. North Korea was sanctioned to hell and back by major international players before they developed nukes… At that point, they really might as well go all the way. The same is true for Iran, and the same will be true for any upcoming player with nukes.
The weaponization of sanctions for political gain rather than to act as a counterbalance against actual world-ending threats will be the death of us.
This is a direct result of US pulling out of JCPOA and failing to be an honest actor dealing with Iran. As always, burger empire is at the root of the problems.
