Agreed. But I think in long-run, Iran will somehow get screwed. There's alot of lobby money involved and it's conditional on bending over for outside parties and wage a war on their behalf. You can always count on politicians to sell your best interests for the highest bid. Nukes are the only sure-shot way of making sure you don't get attacked by someone bigger and stronger than you. You develop the means to execute the MAD scenario if it comes to that and make them believe in those capabilities. A good deterrence always works. With the growing trend of illegal interventions, occupations and threats by global and regional hegemonies, it's imperative that the little guys develop the necessary means to defend themselves and there's only one sure thing that can do it, a nice little nuke with multi-platform capabilities based on land, sea, air and Space (coming soon?) to guarantee a MAD scenario. That is called deterrence and that is the name of the game. Agreed. Some people think Iran's nuclear program is justified, it has Pakistan to the east, Israel to the west, and Russia to the north. As a person with mainly Persian ancestry living in the US myself I hear a LOT about this every day. In my opinion sanctions DO work if you want to affects a country's economic position, but it mainly dosent work on trying to dynastically change a country like on Cuba. Venezuela still has these same problems.