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As others have said, there's little to be gained by such an action. That being said, the same could also have been said about going to war with Iran in the first place.
I think it's a meaningful, if largely unlikely, possibility that is worth discussing.
The US is in the process of being, for the first time in western media, roundly and thoroughly humiliated. If they start flinging nukes, it won't be to achieve a strategic objective, it will be to protect their notoriety as the dominant thugs of the world. And that objective does seem to be a priority lately.
There was little to be gained by starting this war completely unprepared for it, yet they did. They are now looking for a way out, a nuke seems like an obvious way out.
I think we will see ground troops first though. At this point our best hope is that this thing outlasts trump. On the other hand maybe it's the Israelis who are fucking crazy and also nuclear equipped we need to worry about.
I don't want to lathe something into existence, but a democrat in office would see libs go back to brunch when the US drops a nuke anyway. They will even cheer it on if someone like Harris or Buttigieg pulls the trigger, rationalizing it with "having to make the hard choices to protect democracy." The dem president will do it for domestic reasons the way Obama postured drone strikes on hospitals as looking tough in front of Republicans.