Since nuclear weapons have prevented major countries from waging wars with one another (e.g. Russia vs US, or Pakistan vs India, or North Korea vs. US-Japan-South Korea), one solution to the Iran nuclear dilemma is for the US to allow radical Shiite Muslim Iran to pursue its nuclear program (assuming it is for military purposes) while giving nuclear weapons, or at least the means to develop them, to its beloved "allies and friends", the equally radical Sunni Muslim states of Saudi Arabia and the British colonialism-manufactured Gulf emirates and states.
I don't think the West in general and the US in particular are concerned about Iran because it is ruled by radical Islamists. Pakistan is ruled by radical Islamists, India by Radical Hindus, and North Korea by the radical nutcase family Kim family. Then again, Israel is ruled by radical Jewish Zionists. So I am not sure what the big problem is if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon while Saudi Arabia and others are also allowed to do so.
When everybody has a nuclear weapon, then everyone will be reluctant to use these weapons and thus will feel safe, knowing that they can't use nuclear weapons against their neighbors unless they are willing to commit their own nuclear suicide. Mutual deterrence has now worked for 80 years; that's a fantastic record. Why not spread the joy of mutual deterrence to the Middle East and bring an end to the endless torment of the peoples in the region?
There will no longer be a need for more decades of acrimony, negotiations, inspections, sanctions and threats and, lately, a war that is supposed to bring an end to more wars. It's a vicious cycle, like the snake eating its own tail.
Then again, the nuclear club on the Security Council is very discriminatory. Imagine the absurdity of the veto, which allows a nuclear country to block any action to solve problems simply because it has a nuclear bomb. This is akin to extortion and blackmail. Why is it that the "nuclear" can bully the "non-nuclear" by imposing their will simply because they have a powerful weapon? It's just patently unfair. We've been told over and over that humanity has made progress.... I don't think so. I believe we are the deadliest animal species that never learns from its past.
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