” Iran has the nuclear retaliatory capability,”
Not yet, as far as I’ve read or heard. They don’t have a nuclear warhead yet.
Go back and check the repeated assurances Pakistan has given Iran over the past six months of providing them a retaliatory nuclear capability if Israel crosses the nuclear threshold. Russia and its client, the NORKS, will not allow Iran to be steamrolled. You, I and the West really have no idea what the Iranians have developed domestically. Iran has been a “nuclear threshold state” for years. The nuclear capability Israel has vis a vis Iran is quite plainly ONLY the Samson Option. Netanyahu is free to invoke it. Millions of Iranians will die but Bibi will kill more Jews in the process than Hitler did.
One last point regarding an Iranian nuke. I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember but the announcement of Pakistan’s “Islamic Bomb” was a bolt out the blue for the CIA, Mossad, the entire world.