Originally Posted by kane

They want a nuke for 2 main reasons.

1. Respect. When you have the big stick people are forced, if by nothing else than default, to give you room to swing it. Having a nuke would make them a mini super power of sorts in the middle east.

2. to use it. They hat Israel and vice versa. If they had a nuke people in that region, Israel included would be forced to listen to them and take them seriously.