It is also possible that these people are simply irrational or paranoid. Intelligence is always fragmentary and uncertain, but people who are intent on believing that Iran is a deadly enemy about to acquire a vast nuclear arsenal can interpret arbitrary data to justify that belief.
I don't think it's in dispute that Iran has nuclear aspirations, or that it's an enemy of Sunnis and Jews in the Middle East.
Whether they would actually manage to build a bomb and whether they'd actually use it are different questions - but given the Middle East's practices and history, not ones people would tend to ponder too long over.
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It is also possible that these people are simply irrational or paranoid. Intelligence is always fragmentary and uncertain, but people who are intent on believing that Iran is a deadly enemy about to acquire a vast nuclear arsenal can interpret arbitrary data to justify that belief.
I don't think it's in dispute that Iran has nuclear aspirations, or that it's an enemy of Sunnis and Jews in the Middle East.
Whether they would actually manage to build a bomb and whether they'd actually use it are different questions - but given the Middle East's practices and history, not ones people would tend to ponder too long over.