Rukarl
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I explained here before that the trigger for a Semnan underground nuclear weapon test is an attack on the Iranian mainland. Any bomb that is going to fall on Iranian soil is going to force the IRGC and the clerical leadership to change their doctrine, including pursuement of nuclear weapons as a deterrence to scare off another future attack on Iran's sovereignty. Because the current strategy of securing Iran and bringing the battle far away has been working perfectly fine.Very true....if they could attack Iran they would have done it a 100x over already. One thing we can learn from the past is the U.S. is not shy about thumping smaller, weaker countries without even a second thought. Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Bosnia/Serbia, Vietnam, Korea, Somalia, El Salvador, Nicaragua....etc....etc. They've been one of the most destructive forces on the planet since mankind learned to walk up right.
PS: I don't think we should leave the NPT, I think we should clandestinely develop nukes....when the first underground test blast goes off, the whole calculus will change.
If that strategy is going to hit a bump expect drastic policy changes. Iran is no Libya.
Why you think there have been no attack inside Iranian borders for the past 40+ years ? Western spy agencies are fully aware what the real story is.
You give too much credit to the capabilities of Western intelligence agencies. They are just good at the political understanding and what they understand of the current situation (look my previous post). They know what Iran's red line is and they won't ever cross it.Well, even though I agree with you that an all-out invasion of Iran is out of the question, but they have the military prowess to hit our infrastructures and get away with it.
Meanwhile, I don't think that Iran can build nuclear weapons without western intelligence agencies realizing it. We need at least 60 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (+90%) to develop three nukes. One for testing, two for possibly using them in future. How can we have that much HEU with our current capacities? We can't directly go for a plutonium bomb either because we need a breeder reactor for that and we lost the Arak IR-40 reactor. And building a breeder reactor and using remote separation methods to separate uranium from plutonium cannot be hidden from spy satellites easily. And that's besides the fact that a gun-type uranium bomb is way easier to build than a plutonium bomb.
Maybe we should go the Calutron path like Saddam did? It's easier to hide, but too slow and inefficient.
Why building nukes publicly and risk further isolation when you can blackmail them step by step with an ever increasing nuclear breakout capacity ? Keeping them on the edge of their seat all the time with the break out time is a permanent nightmare for them.
That is what Iran has been doing all the time, they reward Washington's sanctions with one advancing step.