Give me a good reason why Iran should NOT have nuclear weapons

Exactly (broadly anyway). He has also provided the poor a hell of a lot in his time in power as well, which is one of the reasons he is currently the president. We see lots of protests by the middle class city folk who are generally anti Armadinejad, not the majority in the smaller towns and villages that voted him in. At least that is my understanding after talking to several anti Armadinejad Iranians...

The US (and west) are one of the major contributors to Irans want of nuclear weapons... Isreal and US sabre rattling over the years have essentially given the Iranian leaders little choice (in their mind) but to develop something that will hopefully secure their independence. It's like the ICC putting crimes on the heads of state leaders and then wondering why the leaders refuse to leave until the bitter end (e.g. Gadaffi and Assad... If Assad ever loses power he will be arrested either by the Syrians themselves or the ICC... He is going to have a better chance fighting it out in Syria than going in to exile, because, well he won't be allowed to.).

Agree with everything!
 
i think it dosent matter who it is that wants the capability. ie if egypt wanted nukes then everyone else would then u have the whole middle east with thair finger on the trigger.

i do agree that it is a bit much of us to say who should have nukes and who shouldnt. its more upto the un, but then what the **** has the un done recently to deserve to bark out orders.
 
In the "world peace fantasy world" that everyone wants, nobody would want/need Nukes, but in the real world, a country has a nuke, you gotta ask yourself, why would they need it? if they have it, maybe we should too, they obviously know something we don't and if they plan to nuke us, we need something to retaliate with...

My nuke is much bigger than yours, My nuke can walk right through the door:p
 
The big thing I don't get is why is Isreal allowed nukes whilst other countries such as Iran ain't allowed them?
 
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The big thing I don't get is why is Isreal allowed nukes whilst other countries such as Iran ain't allowed them?

Well technically Israel never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty along with India and Pakistan, North Korea have but since withdrew.
 
The reason is simple, we don't want them to have them and we can stop them. It is a bad government.

Why risk letting them have them when you don't have to.
 
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A nuclear arms-race in the Middle East is a particularly bad idea, especially as it would seem to lack the MAD 'pact' that presented us all dying a horrible death in the Cold War.

I think this is the main concern IMO.
 
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America is a country full of really nice people but with an increasingly more bizarre government suffering from lots of internal political issues, as we saw the last time they tried to have an election.

fixed and it's OK for them to have nuclear weapons. :)

Iran should have the right to develop nuclear power as should ever other nation. Nobody should have nuclear weapons but the horse has bolted before the stable door was shut.

Personally I'm more concerned about Israel having nuclear weapons. That country is bat**** crazy.
 
Given the track record of nuclear weapons I don't think the US have any right to be governing/ judging who has them.

Only two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both by the United States near the end of World War II. On 6 August 1945, a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on 9 August, a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" was exploded over Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombings resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 Japanese people—mostly civilians—from acute injuries sustained from the explosions.

Also look at Israel and the monstrous crimes they have done in Palestine and continue to do this very day.

It is clear to me who the aggressor/ terrorist is!
 
Also look at Israel and the monstrous crimes they have done in Palestine and continue to do this very day.

It is clear to me who the aggressor/ terrorist is!

They're as bad as each other, any of way of looking at it is foolish.
 
Given the track record of nuclear weapons I don't think the US have any right to be governing/ judging who has them.

Only two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both by the United States near the end of World War II. On 6 August 1945, a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on 9 August, a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" was exploded over Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombings resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 Japanese people—mostly civilians—from acute injuries sustained from the explosions.

Somebody had to be first to use them or we wouldn't be quite so acutely aware of how utterly awful they are. Had America never used them in World War 2 then how succesful would MAD have been in the Cold War? Would the Soviets instead not have been tempted to use them, etc etc.

Also look at Israel and the monstrous crimes they have done in Palestine and continue to do this very day.

It is clear to me who the aggressor/ terrorist is!

You do know its possible to disagree with the way Isreal conducts itself *AND* recognise why a nuclear armed Iran is a bad thing, right?
 
Given the track record of nuclear weapons I don't think the US have any right to be governing/ judging who has them.

Only two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both by the United States near the end of World War II. On 6 August 1945, a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on 9 August, a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" was exploded over Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombings resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 Japanese people—mostly civilians—from acute injuries sustained from the explosions.

Also look at Israel and the monstrous crimes they have done in Palestine and continue to do this very day.

It is clear to me who the aggressor/ terrorist is!

Only two nuclear weapons have been used until someone uses the third. Let's hope that day is long in coming. If Iran gets nuclear weapons then Saudi Arabia will want them, and what can anyone do to stop them?
 
It's like giving a manchild a box of matches and a couple of fireworks. Even though they are legally allowed to have them, is it sensible to give it to them?

This.

In an unstable region it would be asking for trouble. The world would be a better place if no one had these bombs but at least (bar Pakistan) they are in sensible hands at the moment and there is no real danger of some **** pushing them over the edge. Iran is just a mess, the whole region is and it would be one step away from a world wide nuclear war allowing a country like that to have bombs.
 
Either we all have them, or nobody does. It is hypocrisy for the worst kind for us to hoard ours yet dictate that others cannot have any.
 
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