Iran Should Not Be Allowed To Develop Nuclear Weapons

What i need to prove first of all is that the group of people running Iran share a desire to destroy Israel. JewishJournal.com, an article from July 17, 2012 labeled "Anti-Semitism In Iran: Worse Than You Think" will explain it. Many Iranian government officials have made hateful anti-Semitic remarks, according to the article. Also, google "Quds Day" for more information. As you have stated, I am operating under the assumption that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Israel is a nation that has been attacked too many times by hostile neighbors in its short history, so it has developed one of the world's best intelligence agencies. If they say a nation is developing nuclear weapons, their reliable intelligence makes their claims worth listening to. You have argued that Iran has a right to develop nuclear weapons because it is a sovereign state, and that other nations have no right to impede on their nuclear development. I will use a fictional example for my case. Imagine you live on Earth Street, and you are the husband and father in a family known as the Barnes family. The McBrown family hears a rumor that the Austin family, also on this street, is making bombs. The Austin family is racist against the McBrown family, which is the only black family on the street. The rumor has it that the Austins plan on bombing the McBrown house with the bombs when they finish making them. The McBrowns checked out the Austin house through the window and they saw an ingredient commonly used in bombs sitting on their living room couch. So, they tell you and your family about what they saw and about the rumor they heard. The Austins have a nice home, two well-behaved kids, and none of them have acted violently towards the McBrowns before. So do you, as head of the Barnes family, have a right to rally the neighbors together to go pay Austins a visit to check out the McBrown's story? I argue that if the Iranian is planning to blow up Israel, their sovereignty should not be an excuse to not act. North Korea is also a sovereign nation, but we'd be stupid to let North Korea get itself a nuclear weapon. Also, Iran has a record of human rights abuses as long as my arm. Do you really trust a nation like that to not use nuclear weapons to blow people up? Don't forget that Assad's government, which has used chemical weapons on its own people, is a sovereign nation. Just because you have not attacked a nation in the past does not mean you will not attack it in the future. Japan did not attack the US in World War One, but that did not change the fact that it did in World War Two. The same regime ruled Japan in World War One, when it stayed neutral, that ruled Japan during World War Two, when Japan was not neutral. Iran went through a revolution in 1979, after several of the wars against Israel, and this revolution resulted in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israel is a small country, and hitting it with two or three warheads would completely incapacitate it, if anybody remained, preventing them from launching a counterattack with nuclear weapons. This would make mutually assured destruction not so assured, if you know what I mean. Or, they could give such weapons to Hamas or Hezbollah, and they'd use the weapons in Iran's place, allowing Iran to get away with it. Even if they couldn't, radical Muslims believe that the apocalypse and reign of Allah will come to pass when Israel is destroyed. Therefore, if Iran is ruled by such radical Muslims, they'd be willing to throw away even their country to accomplish this purpose, The argumentative chain has not been shattered, and Pro does not have to forfeit.