The worry is not necessarily that Iran would use a nuclear weapon against it, but that a nuclear powered Iran would increase its agressive posture in the region and that it, under its nuclear umbrella, would further bolster and advance its regional-military footprint.
That is a lie propagated by world powers and MSM to deny Iran (another countries) nuclear weapons.
China and US killed each other in Korea, both when they were nuclear weapons powers and neither umbrellas helped the other in that war. Stop promoting Western propaganda.
If Iran would have been nuclear, how likely do you think it would've been for Israel to strike Iranian targets in Syria and elsewhere?
Very very likely. You seriously think if Iran had nukes Israel would not attack Iran in Syria to prevent Iran surrounding it? What is this amateur analysis.
You guys are in a rude awakening thinking nuclear weapons will prevent Iran from getting attacked in other countries. Russia got attacked by Turkey. US got attacked by Iran (Iran-Iraq war and 2003 Iraq war).
Nuclear weapons prevent the
fall of ones territorial integrity to ones enemy as a desperate last measure. It doesn’t prevent conventional conflicts with your enemy (see Pakistan and India) nor does it prevent extra territorial or proxy war conflicts far away from ones borders.
So this thinking that if iran had nukes, israel would be afraid to attack it in Syria because of some “escalation ladder” is nonsense. What is Iran going to say, “you better stop attacking me in Syria or I will nuke you?” Israel will respond “you nuke me and I’ll nuke Tehran, Isfahan, and Qom”.
There is no escalation ladder in a minor conventional conflict or shadow war (which is what Syria is) that would lead to nuclear war that Iran would employ because the situation doesn’t warrant such a escalation.
I mean Iran already has lost generals, scientists and according to Iranian official had its nuclear facility attacked
5 times with explosions which a nuclear attack on a facility is grounds for use of nuclear weapons if it leaks radiation.
So again the fallacy that if Iran gets a nuclear bomb it will be untouchable and can stream roll thru the Middle East is a
a lie promoted by the West to justify sanctions regime and containment protocol. Has no basis in reality or historical precedent.