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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus";p="
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Originally Posted by Questerr";p="
Even if they have them, they're not going to use them.
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How incredibly naive.
You're talking about a country that's actively involved in international terrorism as we speak. Russia and the eastern bloc was aggressive, but not insane. They understood nuclear war.
The clerics you speak of are religious fanatics that openly hate the West and are doing everything they can to bring an end to the nation of Israel... as their opening salvo. They are of the same ideology that advocates suicide bombing. How stable is that? With a nuclear weapon, they have the ability to finally make good what they've been promising the West for decades.
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I choose realistic.
The Iranian clerics are fanatics yes. Yes they don't like Israel and would much prefer that it be destroyed...but not to destroy the land. They want that land to be Muslim. It's kind of hard to do that when the half-life of the radiation won't come for a few thousand years.
Also, those men are power hungry national leaders. They understand politics, diplomacy, and the game of international relations just as well as they understand Islam. To them, intelectually, supporting suicide bombers is no different than supporting human wave attacks. It has a great psychological effect and causes alot of damage, but it doesn't put any extra threat on them. If they launch a nuke or give one to terrorists to use, all their power will be gone and their nation and its great "legacy" (which is what the Iranians are all about
: the Legacy of the Persian People") will be wiped out by the international response.
To world leaders who don't have to worry about accountability or political correctness, terrorism is just another tool.