Fortunately, there still is the option that Iran will not agree to any final agreement by June 30th, which I fully expect to happen with the sanctions going right back on.
We will see if the Iranians are negotiating in good faith and not just trying to buy more time for more advanced weapons grade plutonium enhancement.
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Nuclear Weapons - Iran
[M]ore recently, on November 9, 2011, the IAEA reported that it still had serious concerns that Iran?s nuclear program continued to have potential military dimensions to them and that Iran has been carrying out activities relating to developing explosive nuclear devices. This report stated that evidence suggests that Iran has likely continued to have an organized nuclear weapons program going back to 2003. The conclusions of the November 9, 2011 IAEA report have been reiterated in more recent reports, indicating that concern over Iran?s nuclear program has not diminished. In January 2012, in response to continued concern over Iran?s nuclear program and Iran?s stonewalling of IAEA inspections, the European Union agreed to tighter sanctions against Iran that banned oil purchases from the Islamic Republic. This was in collaboration with the United States, which further tightened its own economic sanctions against Iran. In late May 2012, satellite imagery revealed that Iran has potentially engaged in ?ground-scraping activities? in Parchin to conceal facilities and equipment that could be associated with developing nuclear weapons before United Nations inspectors could visit the site. ...
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Iran Missiles
Look at their ballistic missile ranges.
If Iran has a right to be a nuclear power they also have the right to be destroyed with nuclear weapons. Nuclear armed missile warfare is a zero sum game -- if you win you lose.