Nukes are not really for actual use but for deterrence so likely no lives would have been lost. Israel has nukes and they don't use them unless somebody attacks them with nukes. Same with other countries. Ideally both Israel and Iran as well as North Korea, maybe also Pakistan and India should not have nukes. And even more ideal it would be if nobody had them but the cat's out of the bag already.

> we should have let Iran have nukes?

What part of this war has made Iran less likely to get a nuclear weapon?

There could have been a good war in Iran. A coalition of nations going in to secure the uranium. It would have been messy. But it would have had a clean objective.

> So we should have let Iran have nukes? How many lives would have been lost then?

Fewer, because we would've been deterred from attacking them. Unless we decided to risk nuclear war, I guess.

If Israel can have them, yes. Ideally, neither Israel nor Iran would have them.

I thought Iran's nuclear capability was destroyed in the June 2025 bombings?

does iran even want nukes?

they have a religious law against making or using them, and theyve been sitting at "they could make a nuke within a week" for the past 20 years or more

it feels like people are falling for iran's bargaining chip - they want people to think they could make one, but not actually make one

There was zero evidence they were close to a nuke. In fact, they've been alleged to be weeks away from a nuke for over 20 years. And the accusations come from the ones with the illegal nukes themselves!

Why do we "let" Israel have nukes?

Iran shouldn't have nukes, but starting a war—burning billions of dollars a day, killing kids and innocent civilians, and leveling bridges and universities—is objectively the worst possible way to prevent it.

The JCPOA under Obama actually did a solid job of constraining their nuclear development. That was the pragmatic approach, but Trump just unilaterally scrapped the deal. He doesn't have an actual strategy, maybe just "concepts of a plan".

This regime has been around for half a century. We supposedly destroyed their nuclear program last summer. And somehow their nuclear potential just became a war-worthy threat in February? Come on. Don’t tell me you actually believe that shit.

Unless we actually invade, all this war will do is demonstrate to Iran that obtaining nuclear weapons is an existential necessity for them, and kick the program into high gear. Oh, and provide them with plenty of funding for it due to their newfound ability to collect tolls for a vital shipping chokepoint.

Evil dictator who killed millions of people in his lifetime is also now dead.