Surely they’re well into the twenties as to how many times this has happened?

I’m aware. Do you think these guys want to be martyrs?

It will be like Russia, where they make nuclear threats on a weekly basis, but know they would be obliterated if they ever actually used them.

Having said that, you’re right about Israel having nukes being nothing to cheer about.

No, but they can certainly kill the Ayatollahs, and I don’t think they’re willing to die for the cause.

They quite famously killed the guy in charge, is what I’m getting at.

How many senior Taliban members are still alive from those days? The organisation persists, most of the leadership didn’t.

The US response to something like that would almost certainly result in a regime change in Iran, and the death or life imprisonment of its leaders.

I really don’t think Iran’s leaders are that foolish, after what happened last time someone did that.

I mean, rebellion was very much a core theme of punk.

They don’t often have a use case for them, which is probably a good thing.

Who’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.

They may try.

There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.

There’s a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.

[asked in 2004 what his I.Q. score was] I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. (Stephen Hawking)

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/quotes/

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

As in, Muslim men behaving badly towards them?

By that line of reasoning, they could have all the components of a nuke, and not actually be manufacturing one until they bolt it together.

Imagine thinking this was remotely similar to Ukraine and Russia.

So if Iran starts building specific parts for nukes and processing the enriched Uranium in a way that is suitable for making a warhead, that would be building a nuke.

Which is precisely what they’re doing, unless you actually believe they want that level of enrichment for a power plant.

They have been enriching Uranium to the level needed for developing a nuclear weapon.

Isn’t that part of the process though?