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You forget who started iran's nuclear programme back in the 70's when they west was backing the shah. just as it was the west that supplied iraq with the means to make WMD and turned a blind eye when he used them on his own people. It was OK when he used them on iranians.

Israel does have nuclear weapons and it is the US that blocks the iae going in to israel to check out their reactors. It's ludicrous to suggest that iran wants to attack america with nuclear weapons.

The one way to keep an extreme political or fundamantalist govt in power is to attack it from outside giving it an outside enemy to divert attention to. If fundamantalists get power they very soon begin to antagonise their prople.