[canuck_conservative]

Several ways it could happen. To start, recognize that Pakistan’s “friendliness” to the West is questionable, at best.

So even if the government doesn’t do it itself, there are many anti-American-sympathetic individuals in the nuclear establishment and military (remember the ISI?) who could hand over helpful info or technology, or even defect.

An military attack on a country has a surprising power to suddenly unite former rivals and completely change the picture. That’s why I say an American attack on Iran is stupid, based on the strategic fundamentals.

[rmlew]

None of the rulers of nations around Iran want them to have nuclear weapons. There is a Sunni bomb, they don't want a Shia bomb. Certain radicals may, but the regimes don't.
Given the inability of the IRanina people to overthrow their regime,, the choice is an angy nuclear Iran or an angry non-nuclear Iran.