So there's lots of fuss about how Iran is pursuing development of a nuclear industry, whether it's for the purpose of generating electricity, manufacturing helium and medical radionuclides, manufacturing specialty anti-armor weapons (i.e., depleted uranium shells) or for the purpose of building nuclear weaponry.
There's talk, in the USA and in Israel, possibly in other allied countries, of attacking Iran to halt their progress in refining fuel and doing interesting things with it, whatever those things might be, lest it turn out to be manufacturing nuclear bombs to be used against Israel, ships in the Persian Gulf, whatever.
For many reasons, this would be a bad idea. It's logistically difficult, which raises the likelihood of things going horribly wrong for the attacking force. It's difficult in terms of applying force, because as I understand it, the targets are distributed and well-protected. Plus, Iran has a reasonably well-armed conventional (non-nuclear) military and is strategically placed to retaliate by cutting off shipping through the Gulf. Deliberately provoking them by attacking targets on their soil is essentially asking for a war to break out. You'd have to be stupid, delusional, or flat-out evil.
But here's another thing to consider: Iran is not a nuclear menace to Israel or the USA or Russia or anyone else, really, since nuclear powers don't use nuclear weapons in first strikes.
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