They have the capability but they're not there yet. They're trying to get there, but every time they make progress Israel bombs them back to square. It's been an effective strategy to stall Iran's ability to get nukes.

From what I've heard, their strategy has been to stall at being 6 months away from a bomb. They could've finished their program a while ago if they wanted to, North Korea did it with far less resources. They don't do it because:

1. It puts them in the dangerous MAD nuclear game theory with Israel
2. It would make them into a pariah state like North Korea and close off any possibility of sanctions relief.

They still want to be somewhat ready though for situations like this where full scale war with Israel is inevitable so if they can survive the war for 6 months they can do a test, establish nuclear sovereignty and get Israel to back off.

Existing is justification. Anything to keep the illiterate masses cowed.

Relevant

I'm not trying to scare you, but the 90s was over two decades ago... I know I'm still in denial too

Still waiting for the next Elder Scrolls game

L.A.

I hope Iran. I think they've got the best food of the options on offer. Plus, no cold winters!

American tax-payers fund the US military and similar.

Yeah, cause governments tend to implode when the countries arch enemy attacks them...

Hamas hasn't even imploded, and the people have way more reason to blame them for their current situation than the Iranians can blame their government for pursuing a nuclear program that most of the country agreed with.

No matter how unpopular a government is there, they're still going to be more popular than Israel, and people will rally around any flag to fight their flagrant aggression.

yeah. It was when genocide apologists were saying it about netanyahu's genocidal apartheid regime, too. So get used to it.

Iran has the right to defend itself.

so we’re clearly back to just bombing entire buildings to kill one person (if they were even there).

To me it sound like after admitting a war crime you are still pretending to be one of the good guys.

Iran knew full well what the response would be when they armed Hamas for the October attacks. It would mean Gaza being wiped off the map.

And so does israel government. They are aware that attacking iran may result in a war where thousand civilians may die but they don't give a shit about it.

then we need to stop using oil and gas, so this whole area can go back to being a chunk of irrelevant desert so that all major players can take their fucking fingers out of it.

The area house some of the oldest cultures in the world, read its history. We should indeed stop using oil and gas and that's something "extremists" have preach for decades warning us against global warming and conflicts.

What do you want Iran to do when they get imposed heavy sanctions from everywhere they have no option but to rely on Russian again. Iran could have been a normal country with good relation will all country but the west interfered and organized a coup to back up a dictator.

Iran autocracy is an internal affair no foreign countries government has to interfere. We can just as people protest the theocracy but not supporting killing Iranians under the pretext of democracy like we did in Iran.

If you really cared about democracy you would have also pretested american support for Saudi arabia