Most countries of the world would breathe a sigh of relief if everyone's nuclear capability were eliminated, and if pre-emptive wars were not launched by anyone. But that's not going to happen.

My definition of a "rogue country" is one that viciously attacks either some other country or countries....or large numbers of its own people.

There are by that definition a number of rogue countries out there right now, but Iran is not one of them.

Actions speak way louder than words. The USA, Iraq (under Saddam), the UK, and Israel HAVE attacked other countries in recent times, and Saddam attacked many of his own people as well when he was in power. The Khymer Rouge attacked their own people. Those are rogue countries.

Iran does not qualify as a rogue country at present. They qualify as a country that will not do what the USA wants it to, and simply surrender. That does not make them a rogue country, it makes them an independent country.

If I were the leader of Iran, I would eliminate Iran's nuclear capability, just to completely deprive the USA of any of its phony excuse for marketing another war. However, I doubt that the powers that be in Iran would let me do that...my career would end quickly, undertaking such an initiative. ;-) No country will willingly give up its nuclear power plants and its nuclear program once it has one. Would you? NO, you wouldn't. End of story.

Asking them to give up their nuclear programs unilaterally is like them asking you to give up yours unilaterally. Absolutely r
ridiculous. Only the terminally vain can ask such things of another nation and imagine that that nation will bow down and say "yes".

The Iranians have never claimed the right to build nuclear weapons, and no one has proved that they are doing so, they have claimed the right to have a nuclear power program...and they have that right.

This is a manufactured crisis, just like the manufactured Weapons of Mass Destruction gambit that was used to launch the Iraq War. That was a lie. This is the same lie again, the very same gambit, but in a different place. How many times are you going to swallow the same lie?

The real threats in this world are made by the people who carry OUT those threats. Those people, so far, have been Saddam, the USA, Israel, and the UK, but not Iran.