IRANIAN NUKES ARE NECESSARY TO SECURE THE NATION FROM EXTERNAL THREATS. Avishai, Bernard, and Reza Aslan. "An Israeli Strike on Iran, a Plan That Just Doesn't Fly" Washingtonpost.com - Nation, World, Technology and Washington Area News and Headlines. 10 Aug. 2008. Web. 25 Aug. 2010. . The Iranian nuclear program is daring but not crazy. Consider the view from Tehran. The United States overthrew Iran's government into obtain Iranian oil, and the country is now surrounded by US. troops -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This surely argues for prudence from Tehran. Besides, the regime has probably learned a valuable lesson from another member of the "axis of evil Nuclear North Korea was never attacked it was offered hundreds of millions of dollars to give up its bombs. Nuclear diplomacy, the mullahs have probably concluded, enhances the international prestige of what would otherwise be a Third World country. An Iranian bomb need not precipitate a regional nuclear arms race. Israel's bomb -- developed by the Middle Eastern power most hated and feared by its neighbors -- hasn't.
