The person??? I'm not attacking a person in my remarks, BB, I'm criticizing your nation's foreign policy, and the way your nation is run.

I fully understand your line of reasoning about the possible danger of Iran supplying nuclear weapons to terrorists, but I think it's a side-issue. It's analogous to Hitler complaining that the French Resistance are committing antisocial acts by blowing up trains, and that they might one day do it in Berlin! ;-) True, they are blowing up trains! But why? Well, because the Germans invaded and occupied France, that's why. You must expect violent resistance, BB, when you put in place imperial policies that dominate, terrorize, and oppress entire populations and rob people of their land and sovereignty. (I am referring to the robbery of land belonging to the Palestinians and other Muslim people in that region.)

What you don't seem to get, BB, is that the military forces of the USA, the UK, and Israel ARE terrorists in the view of all those they invade and dominate and occupy. The people you support are far bigger and more effective terrorists than the terrorists you are worried about.

This was also true of the Germans in WWII. They were terrorists...but they didn't see it that way at all. No one sees himself as a terrorist. The people they saw as terrorists were the French Resistance, the Polish resistance, the Greek Resistance, the Jews who rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Russian Partisans, Communists, basically anyone who resisted the dictates of the Reich.

And that's how you see it. America, the UK, and Israel are the people holding the whip in this scenario, BB. They are the people with military supremacy who are invading and occupying...and they are facing resistance to their imperial policies.

It is extremely disingenous to imagine that terrorism is occuring on only one side of these conflicts, that is, the Muslim side....

Terrorism IS the primary means employed by the political side you are backing. Since the USA and the UK and Israel are well-armed enough to do terror with their modern armies and modern weapons, that's how they do it. Just like all conquering empires. Terror is the order of the day if you are set upon imperial conquest. The so-called War Against Terror is a gigantic exercise in terrorism...against Muslim populations in the various targeted regions.

Iran is the nation under direct threat, and they know it. Therefore they want to protect themselves and deter an attack. Why would they NOT want to do that? They'd have to be downright stupid not to be looking for a way to effectively defend themselves, given the political climate in that region, and America's and Israel's general attitude towards them.