You are living in a city where the police have jurisdiction and the means to enforce it, BB, so the police can and indeed would bust down your door in that case.

Iran is an independent sovereign country in a world full of independent countries who ALL do whatever they damn well please within their own borders, and no one does anything about it, because no one has the jurisdiction to...and more importantly, the means to do anything about it, short of launching a war that will kill millions of people.

And you know it.

Therefore, your analogy does not hold water.

Furthermore, if it did hold water, your analogy would also apply equally well to the USA and Israel, who have both done illegal things on a nunber of ocassions, and "the (international) cops" didn't "bust down their door" for it and arrest them. Same reason: they didn't have the practical means to.

You misunderstand the situation if you imagine that a sovereign nation is in the same position as you are when you start building an A-bomb in your basement in New York City or wherever.

New York City has real laws, BB, and a real police force that can enforce those laws. The world does not. The world is, to all intents and purposes, virtually lawless. It is in truth run by the principle "might makes right", and you know it. The more powerful nations do whatever they wish to with impunity. It has always been that way, despite the periodic attempts to build international organizations such as the U.N. and international rules of war such as the Geneva Conventions.

I'm not saying it should be that way. But it is.