***The Iranian leaders are insane but not suicidal.***
Uh...
YES THEY ARE...
Read thier writings, and thier religion. The return of the 12th Mousekateer is what this is all about...
Look, I know their evil nature and their rhetoric and their writings as well as you do. Now, go read Stalin in the 1930s and 1940s and Krushev after him and Breshnev after him; evil minds think and speak alike. How many nukes did they set off?
But, from their point of view having the nukes meant we would not attack them, directly. Did it end their evil nature, improve their lousy sytem, endear their people to them, save their evil system from failure? No.
They caused us a hell of alot of trouble, but we handled it.
China would not ally themselfs with a crazy.