> A reason Iran is threatening to Israel is because Iranian leaders don't recognize Israel's right to exist.

Neither do most nations in the region. Iran has stated multiple times that Iran would comply with the Arab peace process.

> I don't have data on when Iran will/can develop a nuclear weapon. There is a fear that they would make use of it though, which is definitely a problem.

And what is that fear based on? That they are crazy religious nuts who don't understand game theory? Very reasonable.

This is just more propaganda, that one religious nation claims the other religious nations leaders are a bunch of suicide bombers.

Expert consequences by people who actually study this is that even if Iran had nuclear weapons, they would not use it.

This is exactly like when in the US the anti-Communist claimed the Communist whole nuke everybody.

> Iran also provides funding and weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah, which are both internationally recognized terrorist groups on Israel's borders that launch rockets into the country.

And Israel has invaded the Lebanon, is consistently stealing more land from Palestinians, is often bombing West Bank and Gaza.

Israel has attacked the Iranian nuclear program and has bombed Iranian forces in Syria. Despite these forces being there based on invitation from the international recognized government of Syria.

Why can this not be treated like any other conflict between two nations, where we use the same standards for both governments?

> So while Israel is technologically ahead, Iran demonstrates intent to be an aggressor against Israel given the opportunity.

In Israel has done the same thing and arguably has done far more. Not to mention the constant and public demands from Israel that the US should attack Iran and bomb them into the stone age.

Seriously, go and actually listen to what Israeli politicians from the Likud and even further right wing groups say about what should be done to Iran. And listen to what people in the US government who are friends of Likud say. Bombing them into the stone age, preemptive war and so on.

Btw, while Israel accepts that Iran as a country should exists, they do not think the Islamic Republic is legitimate and had a regime change policy for a long time.

> In the interest of avoiding a war between Iran and Israel, where I argue there is no real winner when lives are lost, it's worth making sure Iran doesn't have the opportunity to start a war. Israel would much prefer to have peace.

Israel has a funny way of showing they want peace in that case.

> I agree with the concern about the 1 year claim. Iran definitely has the right to use civilian nuclear power, and I don't know the math behind the 1 year line. It may be that 1 year is the fastest possible amount of time that Iran could conceivably develop a nuke, in which case, I totally agree, it's propaganda to be citing that.

As long as the safeguards are in place, Iran can't develop a nuke at all. And from Israels perspective that is exactly the problem. That is exactly why Israel and friends almost went ballistic when Obama showed that Iran could be a international partner with an agreement.

Now the buggy-men about Iran nuclear is gone and that makes it impossible for them to ever get the US into a war with Iran. And they know Iran doesn't have the conventional military.

What if if 'shock' Iran became a normal country in the international order. That must be prevented at any cost.