If Israel, N Korea, & Pakistan have it, Why can't Iran have a nuclear bomb?
78766
With the current Iranian government no. The current leader of Iran, President Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD has called for Israel to be wiped of the face of the earth. If he had nuclear weapons this madman would pull the trigger.
160752
It is possible. After all they share the region with Israel which has developed a nuclear arsenal, hasn't signed the NPT and has attacked arab states not so long ago. A potential nuclear threat demands to be counterbalanced. Pakistan and India did so, when Pakistan developed nukes India followed suit immediately. There's also the US threat which has led to the occupation of two arab states: Afghanistan and Iraq, the latter was a former Iran ally against Israel.\nOn the other hand, Iran needs nuclear power. Oil reserves won't last forever and the nuclear technology needs time to mature and gradually take over the role of main power supply. This is also good policy because it allows for increased exports (theoretically) and thus make more countries depended on Iran oil (thus increase political influence without military support), given that most countries suffer from oposition to nuclear power.\nFact is: Iran has the right to develop and research nuclear energy under the NPT. Fact is: the USA hasn't provided any proof to sustain allegations that Iran's program is military. They only said that Iran -could- break the NPT, but any country that has an enrichment facility could (that includes UK and US) and this is no grounds to deny  nuclear power (it's sheer hypocrisy since it comes from a country that holds thousands of nukes ready to launch). There are other countries more 'dangeous'. Romania has a nuclear plant, it has an enrichment facility, a research facility with some world-renown nuclear physicists and even more, it has two uranium mines. They have a better chance at building nukes than Iran does, because Iran is mostly importing uranium. Basically, until US brings evidence that Iran is breaking the NPT, USA legally can't and shouldn't do anything. Then again the legality of a course of action never bothered the US.
729743
Because I think that they are perfectly aware that by the time the first bomb will reach the Iranian land,Israel will cease to exist...Iran has the capability to do this and both US and Israel are perfectly aware of this,otherwise they would have attacked Iran by now...And Israel never cared about world's opinion,so I doubt that they will start now caring about what others say...
564024
yes iran should be able to have a nuke. and we should deliver it to them by air, and maybe one for syria, palestine, and turkey oh and no korea. good people in those countries should start packing up and moving out
537424
It can't, they'll have to pry it out of Bush's cold dead hand if they want that technology and Israel will long since have nuked Iran out of existence. Why don't they use their massive reserves of oil since they have so much? They have alot of sun why don't they use solar energy? Why don't they have their aparently smart scientists invent some energy creation technology out of sand? Why nuclear?
373677
Iran will nuke Israel if given the chance.  They are that stupid.  We have to stop them but the answer is not to nuke Iran but to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.  I say air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.  This is of course, after diplomacy fails.
420999
Well, North Korea or Iran are the ones that have announced that they have nukes. Unless something flares up between Pakistan and India, I think North Korea or Iran will fire first. Of course, to quote something I read in the newspaper, whoever launches will be turned into a "skating rink" (nuclear blasts turn dirt/sand into glass).
719251
Those with active Nuclear Weapons programs:\nUSA, Russia, China, UK, France, India, Pakistan, Israel\n\nThose without, but who could produce them if desired:\nGermany, Holland, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Canada, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Turkmenestan, Siberia.\n\nThose who may or may not have:\nNorth Korea\n\nIn addition, Iran is trying very hard to acquire the technology to create its own nuclear weapons.
336752
Israel is a lot less likely to be firing off nuclear weapons at their enemy-of-the-week than Iran is.  But who has the right to develope them and who doesn't - I don't know.   The US and the UN want to be the Police of the World, and that seems to cause more problems than it solves.
706670
They need something over there to be bombed.  I think a few cruise missiles are in order simply to wake up ahmadinejad and scare the sheet out of him.  There must be some actions and repercussions for what they are doing.  If there aren't, why would they ever stop?  It needs to be done now BEFORE they have a nuclear arsenal.  Same goes for north korea.
516748
A nuclear capable Iran is a threat to the world--not just to the USA and I am sorry but this not a case of "so and so has nuclear power and so can we".  If your a country that is threatening others then stopping a nuclear program will is a must.\n\nEvery effort at diplomacy will be done but if that doesnt work--then I imagine they will take out Irans Nuclear site. I say "they" because it wont be the USA alone--in fact I do not think we will do it--it will probally be Israel.
593384
Giving Iran nukes would destabalize the entire middle east, because Israel cannot survive with an enemy with nuclear tech.  Israel will attack Iran before the year is out unless sanctions are imposed.  Why?  Israel has been invaded by nearly every country in the middle east at one point or another, and defeated them all.
775010
hey if Iran can be considered a democracy why can't Israel?
87111
India already has nuclear bombs, as does Pakistan.\n\nWhether this is "allowed" is purely academic.
481312
It is 10-15 years away from a bomb and even then they do not have the delivery system to deploy it at this time farther than their neighbors in the middle east.  What they do have the the capability to cause a massive world war by thumbing their nose at a bully.  What that bully doesn't understand is that the threat that an Iranian Nuke presents is not nearly as dire as the threat of another unjust war in the middle east creates.  Oil shipments from the region to the west cease or are drastically cut, oil shipments to China (over land via pipelines) skyrocket, the western economies fall, the western governments are left in shambles, dictators rise from democracies, war spreads throughout the region and the world...  Pakistan's government falls giving radical islamists more than enough nukes and delivery systems years before Iran would have had them and the world is thrown into the darkness of a war which no one will win.
351976
Iran is an unstable, extremist government who consistently make comments about wiping it's neighbors off the map.  That country can not be allowed to have a nuke.  For those of you who think that since the USA has nuke all countries should be ALLOWED to have nukes I wonder if you would feel the same if one was dropped on your mom's house or boyfriend, girlfriend, dad  or grandmother.  Sooner or later Iran will have the ability to launch a nuke on the USA.  Remember they are a Muslim country and they believe that people of all other religions should convert or die.
752778
Hello?  Israel is our ally.  They need nukes for protection. Iran wants to annihilate them and us.