What is the issue surrounding the country of Iran?

Answer 1

There are numerous issues concerning Iran. Probably the most talked-about currently is the Iranian Nuclear Program, which Western nations believe is moving towards having a nuclear missile in the near future, but Iran claims is for purely peaceful purposes. Given Iran's intransigence concerning the right of international weapons inspectors from IAEA to verify that the nuclear program is peaceful, the Western view is far more likely. The reason that Western countries fear a nuclear-armed Iran is that the Iranian regime has promoted serious apocalyptic views and will likely see the weapon's destructive capacity in a positive light for bringing on the End Times. Therefore, the theory of "mutually assured destruction" which prevented US-Soviet nuclear war, may not be effective to prevent the religious zealotry that fuels Iranian politics.