Iran is working on a nuke and has some pretty accomplished scientists and should not be underestimated. They are also the largest global sponsor of terror. They killed a lot of the Americans who died in Iraq. Much of sorting out this mess is dependent on intelligence gained by human contacts. Frankly the US sucks as this. I don’t have time to explain why, but trust me. That’s why AFG and Iraq were such a mess- not because of conspiracies. Israel is extremely good human intelligence collection particularly in the Middle East.
If Iran got a nuke it would not be like Spain having a nuke. You’re dealing with a country that thinks dying in the name of islam is not dying so they will have no qualms in using it or giving it to their proxies to use. Mutual assured destruction (MAD) will not deter them.
Having said that the US should not be the global cop and I’m tired of paying for it and having buddies die for it. The world needs to solve its own problems but because the government of the past made us dependent on the rest of the world- we are now fucked over by what happens there and involved wether we like it or not.
I’d like to see Israel, Saudi and the others take care of Iran. The Saudis have talked about building a nuke for years but the US has persuaded them not to and said we would protect them and they are more than happy to have that arrangement.
So the question you must ask yourself is do we want Israel to do it, do we want a nuclear capable Saudi to do it, or do we want to take out Iran? None of those are great answers and anything the Israelis do we will be blamed for.
Lastly there is a portion on the Iranian population that is sick of the mullahs and the current government. They might have a chance to seize power, they tried while Obama was prez and we hung them out to dry. Again- getting involved in that type of thing needs to be done intelligently and correctly- something the US is NOT good at.

So basically we’re fucked.

To steal a line from Eddie: “Of course, what would I possibly know about this.