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The reason for the war is that the petrodollar is in decline, it's the same reason they kidnapped Maduro. They can't have so much oil being traded outside of dollars without the dollar, itself, losing value as a reserve currency.

Nukes were never on the table. WMDs are used as propaganda cooked up by people who want to trick you into supporting wars for oil.

Iran not getting nukes ensures that this war will happen again too. The only ways to keep sovereignty in the face of imperialists are:

1. Be economically irrelevant (a-la Cuba)
2. Kick their ass in a land war so hard that they are scared to even try (a-la Vietnam)
3. Have nukes (a-la North Korea)

If you don't have any of those three you're bound to be coup'd by US-backed fascists at some point, see: history of South America and West Asia.

Iran has oil and control over the straight of Hormuz, so (1) is out of the question. (2) is more likely but I'm not sure if the US leadership is dumb enough yet to just go head first into another land war in asia, and in any case this would lead to hundreds of thousands of dead civilians. This leaves us with (3) as the most viable strategy.

Claims about Iran having nukes ready soon have gone on for decades. Khameneyi 1 was very against them. As for who wants Iran to have nukes, I do, and I hate the government with all my heart. I want them to have nukes because I don't see the regime going away, at least while Israel and USA exist, and nation-states, especially those two, only language they know is extreme violence. Of course, if we lived in a historical vacuum divorced from patriarchy I'd want no one to have mikitary grade weapons at all, let alone nukes. My conspiracy theory is that Iran doesn't and won't need nukes. They can just go along with the lies that they already have them. There's probably a reason they don't though.

that has been a lie since netanyahu since the late 90s, and bush the early 2000s it never has been true.

A major reason we had this war was Iran enriching Uranium for nukes.

Nope, that's entirely Israeli and American propaganda, all experts agree that Iran was NOT making nukes, and they are NOT enriching uranium to be weapons grade.

Based on the belligerence and untrustworthiness of the global hegemon (the US) and its client state (Israel), getting nukes is the only rational move for smaller countries like Iran. That is the environment that we have cultivated.

Given how outrageously aggressive Israel is in this region, another nuclear power would be an effective check and probably usher in a new era of peace in the region.

Why would you ever and I mean ever believe the trump administration about anything? They don't even believe this excuse, as evidenced by the rotating list of vague reasons they've given for this unjust war.

Bruh the world is ready to crowdfund nukes for Iran.

Their neighbors across the strait are all one sect of muslims, and Iran is a different sect of muslims.

The reason they want Iran eliminated as a regional power is that they can be the singular regional power and fuck over other sects of muslims like they did to Yemen.

Pakistan literally sold them the uranium enrichment technology bruh.

Even ignoring the ridiculousness of this comment, they got their jumpstart thanks to their immediate neighbor.