Reply #17: You neglect to mention, however, that the leaders who call for

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martyrdom from their followers NEVER martyr themselves. For that reason alone, we know that Iran would not use a nuclear weapon against the US because our response would be to glassify their entire country, including their leadership.

We are in far greater danger from some little terror group coming up with a few million dollars to purchase a black-market Russian warhead, and detonating it in NY harbor. And the chances of that happening are infinitesimal. The idea that Iran could produce an easily transportable nuke which they give to a terrorist group which intends it for an attack on the US without us finding out about it is, frankly, ludicrous. With IAEA monitoring, with spies and paid informants, with tracking of precursor materials, they'd never get away with it.

If Iran wanted to attack us with nukes, they'd be better off providing the cash to the terrorists to buy the Russian warhead, in which case they don't need a nuclear bomb project themselves at all, and all the monitoring of their nuclear program won't stop them giving money to terrorists, if that's what they intend, so all the hysteria about them producing a bomb is just that - hysteria.