For political leverage with other middle eastern countries.
If you ask me the idea of nuclear weapons in Israeli hands just seems like a bad idea, their entire history has been marked with with evidence of their bad temper and arrogant militaristic tendencies.
NOBODY needs nukes; everybody WANTS them because everybody else HAS them. No country is an exception to this. I am a pacifist at heart, but this question is like asking why the US needs nuclear weapons. They exist as a deterrent to attack by other nuclear countries, and they give no leverage in wars with non-nuclear countries like North Vietnam, or Afghanistan in the case of the USSR. Also, Israel uses the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank of the Jordan River, and (formerly) the Sinai Peninsula as strategic buffer zones through which an enemy must penetrate before attacking Israel. Does not the United States use the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Mexico, and Canada in the same basic way, but on a larger scale? Like Israel, India is also armed with nukes, and they face two nuclear-armed countries (China & Pakistan), yet relations are civil. An armed society is a polite society, yes? * Yes, their history is indeed filled with violence, as is Western history. * Not everyone wants nukes. Many countries have the capability to build a nuclear arsenal, but they have declined it.
Israel has regional adversaries that have made it clear that they will destroy Israel as soon as they have the capability to do so. As a result, Israel needs to maintain a more powerful military to ward off such attacks.
They are a country surrounded by hostile enemies, they have nukes to act as a deterrence to invasion.
To kill america
At this point in time (2012) Iran is believed to have no nuclear weapons capability at all. However this could end at any time (at which point Iran would be nuclear weapons capable).
Australia's view about Iran having nuclear , Australia does not support that because If Iran had their Nuclear weapons they will threat the world, and will cause an nuclear race in the Arab nations witch will lead to WW3
Because ww3 is around the corner and they dont want to be without any weapons. Nuclear weapons are a weapon but also a very good deterant
Israel is the only nation in the Middle East known to have nuclear weapons.
because of their nuclear weapons and protests
A nuclear program. Some Americans think Iran is building nuclear arms to invade America while Iran defends by saying there using it for a wierd experement i think.... -.-* _______________ America just doesn't want Iran to have Nuclear weapons, whilst Iran never invaded any country and will only use it for defence.
Yes. Bashar Al-Assad and his government support a nuclear-armed Iran. However, Syrians toe the Iranian line and claim that the program is only for nuclear power and not weapons.
I have no intention of dropping nuclear bombs on Iran. As far as national governments go, it seems that if there will be any military strike on Iran, it will be with conventional weapons.
because obama is secretly from iran
it is quite unfair to say that having nuclear weapons with IRAN is dangerous because when pakistan is nuclear armed country and other nations are equipped with this nuclear facility because if IRAN is acquiring nuclear energy for gud purpose, then we shud not stop IRAN from achieving its energy purpose.
Afghanistan has not argued that it wants nuclear weapons.
Because nuclear weapons are the most deadly of all weapons and can kill hundreds of thousands of people at once. Also, people will always get suspicious if a country is secretly making nuclear weapons e.g. Iran and USA. IF one country wants to build nuclear weapons then their neigh ours would want to too