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Something tells me Saudi don't want Iran to have nukes. 😄 Perhaps Iran could turntables by promising to share their nuclear program with Saudi.
The people who would be most harmed by a nuclear armed Iranian regime are the Iranian people.
This is what Iran looked like before the ayatollahs took over. Successfully removing a nuclear-armed, religious-fundamentalist government is orders of magnitude more difficult for the people. The whole world will suffer, but no one more than the people of Iran themselves.
Do you really think israel and the west really care about regular iranians? Don't misinterpret my comment as a defence to iranian autocracy
Unfortunately, the answer is no. But at the moment, all that normal folks can do is hope to be the least screwed. Something must give and soon, we can only hope it breaks in the direction of peace.
This is what Iran looked like before ~~the ayatollahs took over~~ the USA deposed the democratically government that ruled Iran in the 50s and installed a puppet in its place, that ruled until the religious nuts deposed them in 1979
Good thing there is literally no evidence Iran is trying to obtain nuclear weapons then. Also not to defend the Ayatollahs, but you do realize that the Shah was also running a one-party dictatorship right? Like, there's a reason the Iranian revolution happened.
Successfully removing a nuclear-armed, religious-fundamentalist government is orders of magnitude more difficult for the people.
Uh... not really, no. Nukes only matter for regime change by military force, which as seen in Iraq and Afghanistan is a bad idea no matter how you slice it. Those nukes, if they ever exist, are never going to be pointed at the Iranian people, so they have no reason to fear them.
literally no evidence Iran is trying to obtain nuclear weapons
Either incredibly uninformed or abject misinformation:
No 'credible civilian' purpose for Iran uranium France 24, 2024
The U.S. intelligence community, as recently as this past weekend, has maintained its assessment that Iran isn’t pursuing an atomic bomb.
From your AP article.
On 1 May 2018 the IAEA reiterated its 2015 report, saying it had found no credible evidence of nuclear weapons activity after 2009.
-Wikipedia. Your IAEA predates the 2015 nuclear agreement so it's pretty outdated.
Western countries' problem isn't that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, but that they could plausibly build a nuclear bomb if they chose to, which at this point seems to be more of an excuse to harass their Middle Eastern rival than anything else.