Because it is not pertinent.
As to the rest of your false equivalence, whether Iran has pride worth respecting will depend upon whether its people are willing to overthrow their oppressors.
When assessing whether Iran is close to having nukes, it is not pertinent to mention that Netanyahu has been claiming for THIRTY YEARS that Iran is close to having nukes?
Is it pertinent to mention that American intelligence has long denied that Iran is close to having nukes?
Or that Mossad said that Iraq was close to having nukes -- and was wrong (or lied?) about that as well?
Yes, let's ignore facts. Let's just follow Israel into yet another Neocon war.