There are about a dozen countries that have nuclear weapons, and they have had them from over 50 years.
The fact that they claim Iran hasn't got one yet, strikes me as odd.
Something is wrong here.
The Iranians aren't that inept.-Tom
When I first moved to the Tri Cities (Richland, Kennewick, & Pasco) in 1978 the town was crawling with Iranians who were our nation’s allies at that time. Then the Shah gets over-thrown with the help of Jimmah Cahtah, Khomeini comes to power and they recall all of their citizens.
Why is this important, the Tri-Cities is home of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation where plutonium was produced and extracted for US weapon systems. So one would think that they went home to work on developing nuclear material for their country. I’m sure there was some resistance by them but surely they wouldn’t kill, torture, or imprison all of these folks.