"None of them will ever use it unless they are simply at the final extremity of desperation, in my opinion, meaning: not until they are attacked in such a way as threatens their total defeat and annihilation."


Not according to what Iran has stated.


As for the neighbor analogy, in my neighborhood, we are NOT allowed to have WMD or threaten to destroy our neighbors. If we do, we get hauled off to jail.

So, we can haul Iran off to jail?????