That being said, highly unlikely for Iran to collapse unless this escalates significantly and becomes a very drawn out conflict.

I'm not as confident in my prediction skills, or yours. It seems to me that Israel wants to make Iran a failed state like Libya, one that it can invade and bomb with impunity as it does with Syria. Things will go very bad when that happens in a country of 90 million (sry Ted).

Of course, many are frothing at the mouth for that exact outcome and orange man has done little to inspire belief that he won't listen to them.

I mean, when they murder your negotiation partner and you... praise that, there is very little that is going to be beyond you.

Realistically, Iran has always been highly incentivized to get nuclear weapons, and the last couple weeks has only made that incentive greater.

I think that they were just using it as a bargaining chip. Why not give it up voluntarily? Because that just invites more demands.

Until now, of course.

At this point it may be better for everyone involved if they do have them, sadly. Except Israel but they can get bent at this point.

It's basically guaranteed that if you stand up to the globalist world order, you're going to get destroyed if you don't have nukes.