@izzythepush,
Perhaps, but let's consider why this may be so.
There is a great deal of angst and sturm within and without Israel concerning the possibility that it might strike Iran's nuclear facilities with
conventional weapons.
If Israel was truly a nuclear threat to Iran, Tehran would already be a pile of smoking, fused rubble.
There is absolutely no reason to consider Israeli nukes as an aggressive threat.
None.
Iran doesn't need nukes to defend itself against Israel unless it plans on attacking Israel.
Since Iran, clearly, desires to be the dominant force in the region and Israel is not inclined to let this happen, Iran wanting nukes to counter the regional counter (Israel) to a Persian hegemony is understandable.
Understandable is not the equivalent of legitimacy.
Since Israeli nukes pose no threat, what-so-ever, to a peaceful Iran that recognizes Israel's right to exist, the argument that Iran wants nukes because Israel has them is specious.
(Almost as specious as the argument that Iran wants nukes because the Israelis aren't being very nice to the Palestinians)
Iran wants nukes because it will provide them with serious leverage in their efforts to dominate the region.
They want nukes for the same reason North Korea wanted them.
It's amazing to me that folks such as yourself are so willing to give the Iranian regime the benefit of the doubt when Iranians have died in the street to overthrow it.
Do you think the Iranians who protest and die are rebel rousers, funded by Israel and the CIA?
Perhaps you are among those who consider NATO forces imperialistic war criminals for aiding the Libyan rebels against the dictator Khaddafi.
