Comment by jacquesm

You can believe whatever you want but I actually don't believe that Iran would use that bomb offensively even if they have been threatening to do so. In that sense they would be no different than all but two other nuclear powers. Only one country has ever used nuclear weapons and only two countries have threatened to use them in recent memory. Iran was more or less bottled up until Trump decided to cancel the deal that was in place and since then it has been going down further and further. You don't escalate like this unless you are prepared to deal with the consequences and it is pretty clear that Trump had absolutely no plan post the initial bombings and has been winging it. That makes him super dangerous, not just to Iran but to pretty much the whole world.

This conflict has the potential to spiral out of control in ways that make my hair stand on end and to not put too fine a point on it, it's the first time in my life that I actually wonder if there will be a tomorrow as we know it because apparently some idiot thinks he has the power to decide over life and death for 100's of thousands of people and for once the person with that power is deranged enough that he might actually use it unprovoked. In a sane world this guy would be behind bars instead of at the top of the food chain.

The Strait of Hormuz was open 6 weeks ago and Iran was not as determined to 'get the bomb' then as they are now.