Say I was Russia and in an evil mood…

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I think the only Islamic countries with nukes are Pakistan and Turkey. So far Israel has bombed all nuclear facilities Arab states that are trying to make weapon-grade plutonium, and also assassinated their nuclear physicists assisting them. I suspect if Iran tries it, the same thing is llikely to happen.

@shavixmir said
Why would I not supply Iran with nuclear weapons and tell them to nuke Tel Aviv and American/ British targets?

And say I was Iran and felt existentially threatened by Israel… what would make me not use those nukes?

Probably best I’m not Russian. Or evil.

Iran is much further along the Nuke Trail than some may think because Trump unilaterally took us out of the nuke deal with Iran that Obama put in place. NK is playing a part as well, but it was Trump that gave Iran a green light to their nuclear program.

Iran also showed their hand that they now have ballistic missiles like the ones they shot at Israel lately. We're closer to a nuclear Iran than most think.

@vivify said
In other words Israel may have made their enemy more dangerous by putting their back against the wall.

Perhaps.

It’s basically from The art of War.
Not the nuke part obviously, but the cornering of rats and their behaviour.

@AThousandYoung said
What makes you think Russia is in a position to “tell” Iran to do anything?

Nukes in Iran are a threat to Russia as well as Israel. And something like that would come back to Russia. They couldn’t hide something like that.

Telling, nudging… giving Iran the capability to choose to end the way they want to rather than the way the US or Israel wants them to end.

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I would never use nuclear weapons.

However, I can see how and why others would.

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Yeah ... Im curious to see which countries are so stupid to fire nukes at Israel.