Does it matter to you that India has been at war with Pakistan three times in the last 60 years, and that they both have nukes, and that they are outside the NPT?

It is a lot more likely that India and Pakistan will nuke each other than that Iran will actually be able to strike Israel.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

I don't agree with any country saying another country should be wiped off the map. I personally don't have a pro- or anti-Iran stand...I'm reporting this as news, is all. I don't particularly like the current Iranian government's hard.right wing stand, and as I know people who do humanitarian work in Iran, I've learned interesting things about that society that is unsettling.

But...when one looks at the behavior of the Bush led US govt., which has been to do its own thing and consistently break international laws, start unilateral wars (and now, apparently, sign illegal treaties)...it doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see why a country like Iran may want to nuke up, just out of self-protection.

My point being, America is really behaving strangely here...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

I fail to see your point: thinking that helping out non-signatories to the NPT who have proven that they are diverting from their civilian to there military programme with nuclear technology while sabre-rattling over the possibility that a signatory to the NPT might want nukes is a bit bizarre is hardly equivalent to wanting Iran to have nuclear weapons. No one here wants that. I would suggest that few here want any nuclear weapons lying around. Sounds to me as if your internalising "you're with us or against us" a bit too much.

Does it bother you that the US has a first-use and tactical use doctrine for nuclear weapons?