Experts: Danger of nuclear-armed Iran may be hyped

But the White House and its partisans may be inflating the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran, say experts on the Persian Gulf and nuclear deterrence. While there are dangers, they acknowledge, Iran appears to want a nuclear weapon for the same reason other countries do: to protect itself.

Any country without nuclear weapons is at the mercy of those countries that have nuclear weapons. This is not brain surgery here.

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