Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
I just love America's hypocricy: "Hey, we can keep tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, our buddies in Israel can keep tons of nukes, but don't you dare!"

Then the government's actually convinced us that Iran is being outrageously unreasonable for not lying down and accepting that we, the enlightened Christians of the west, can be trusted with nukes, but you Iranians are all a bunch of savages who can't be trusted, and you should just agree with that! Riiiight, that's skillfull diplomacy right there. Last I heard, only twice has one country nuked another, and both times were America. But even with as much or more thumping for war against Iran, as they say to us, it can only be their fault if war breaks out.

Hey, who is it again that has the most colourful history of deposing democratically elected leaders and installing brutal dictators? The US's buddy Batista, before Castro gave him the boot, was so brutal he made Saddam look like the prime minster of Sweden. In fact they did a similar thing in.... oh what was that country.... oh that's right, IRAN (1953). But clearly, the US is the one who's suffered the injustices of Iran's agression over the decades. Iran has no reasonable cause for distrust of the US, of course.

You make a lot of valid points that can't be argued against..and nobody is denying you those..
the point is to realize that there are other undeniable facts to pay attention to, like the fact that the government in Iran is a religious dictatorship disguised as democracy. Kinda like Russia, you know, where you vote with the Kremlin or you get killed. This type of country is not one that should be in possession of nuclear weapons. Thats why the cold war was so damn scary! Russia should never have had those type of weapons! Do you never think how lucky we all are that we had some rational people in office who must have been scared of the consequences? Do you realize how many times the world came close to complete destruction? What makes you think that this situation will automatically play out well, like the cold war. In case you haven't noticed there is already a renewed arms race. Laughing a nuclear Iran off as non-threatening, when it is an open enemy who is defying UN Sanctions is plain naive. No matter your thoughts on US imperialism or aggression, you cannot deny that this comes down to the fact that they can't have nukes because the country isn't stable, not because they are "muslim enemies" like you suggest.
It's just as frightening that Pakistan has them too, cause they are crooked as hell.
So that con kinda outweighs the points you make about the US overstepping its bounds. It isn't just America and Israel biting their nails.

Basically what I'm saying to you Gandalf is that I agree with your stance on the US ...everything from their illegal international activity to their world police behaviour and their world domination idea they have...but in the case of Iran, put those feelings aside, because not everything is about the evilness of the US government. Iran is a particularly dangerous threat, and you don't seem to realize that.

P.S. Why does everyone buy this peaceful energy creation crap??? Of course they have to say that!!! Think they would come out and say well yes, we're building the bomb.
According to the IAEA Iran has been quite vague with inspection principles.
If they just want the energy why not allow another country to build it and maintain it for them. And their "right" to do so is just bullshit. They have a few more "rights" to work on before nuclear power should be considered.