Let me see if I have this straight. Its okay for Israel or the US to attack Iran because they violated a treaty, but its not ok for the Palestinians to attack Israel for violating a treaty?
No. Iran violated a treaty that encourages distribution of knowledge about nuclear energy in return for permitting inspections (safeguards) and now refuses the inspections. So countries helped Iran get a nuclear reactor going and now Iran is flipping the bird at them. That's gratitude for you. The same agency conducting the safeguards has found evidence that the nuclear knowledge, given in trust, has jump-started a nuclear weapons program. A second possible treaty violation. All anyone is asking of Iran is to prove that this is wrong. Iran has made zero effort to do so.
Meanwhile people are accusing the West of beating war drums and threatening war because the
West says things like: "
All options are on the table."
The same people claim Iran is harmless and no threat to anyone when
Iran says things like: "
Israel is a cancerous tumor that must be cut and will be cut." Additionally, the head Iran's armed forces says, "[We will]
not wait for enemies to take action against us." And Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi declared that
Iran has the capabilities to carry out military strikes on US interests around the globe.
But somehow, I am expected to believe that Iran intends no harm and it is only the West beating war drums. This is difficult to believe based on the statements from both sides. After trying to sell me on that one I suppose Iran supporters will try to sell me a bridge in Brooklyn, right?. And when it comes to actions, the USN on two occasions rescues Iranian sailors and returns them to Iran. A gesture of good faith and brotherhood. Certainly a peace offering. Iran's response: threaten the departing carrier group (that participated in a rescue) to never come back. That's gratitude for you (seems to be a theme with Iran).
So if Iran wants to claim the have a legitimate need for a nuclear weapon, I would ask for two things: 1) Iran is trustworthy, so I can know they won't release weapons unnecessarily, and 2) Iran has a peaceful, purely defensive intent, so I know they will not use this weapon in a preemptive strike.
Iran has proven none of these things. They have suggested they will use preemptive strikes, so now I must consider the nuke will be used this way. They have threatened to close the straights of Hormuz, threatened the US, Israel, Turkey, and Germany. I would sooner give nukes to Kuwait, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, or Qatar. But no way would I let Iran have a nuke.