Everyone is clear on that, including Iran. The reason they want the bomb is the exact opposite. They saw Saddam hang, they watched Kaddafy attacked by NATO planes and murdered in the street. They see Assad under massive US, NATO, Saudi and Gulf State attack.
Nobody talks about removing North Korea or Pakistan. A nuclear nation gets left alone.
If you take a moment and look at the aims and goals of the Shia Twelver sect in Iran you will see they want nukes for something other than self-defense. All the ruling mullahs belong to this sect and, are in fact the movers and shakers, so to mix a metaphor, of the sect.
They only care about NK as a help mate in achieving their nuclear ambitions. They would not care, except for the loss of those ‘hidden’ assets in NK, if the country disappeared under an landslide of China’s PLA.
There used to be an Iranian Feeper, Alan, who was an ex-pat Iranian from the Shaw’s time who warned about the coming acquisition and use of nukes by the mullahs. (I think he passed away now).
Exactly.