Everyone keeps saying "Iran must not have a nuclear weapon."

And while this statement is something many people would agree with they aren't all agreeing for the same reasons.

The general public in the US is *scared* of "Nuclear Iran" (some bigotry informs this) --the war hawks aren't scared. They think they are playing chess, believe they can dictate the balence of power through "surgical*" force.

They have failed and we've watched it happen.

*there is nothing surgical about it

Many "scary" nations that don't like the US have horrible weapons. So what?

You will die because they close the dialysis clinic in your small town, not because of Iran.

These guys will cheerfully kill tens if not 100k civilians just to have the edge in negotiations about who makes money off the tankers and who gets the plumb trade deals.

The ideological battles are a smoke screen to make Americans scared enough to let them play risk with our lives.

@futurebird

My general impression is also that many Israeli believe that Iran _will_ use nuclear weapons to destroy Israel sooner or later, if they get them.

I am not saying that they are right, but this is what they believe.