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For some reason this is never brought up, and instead the US pretends to negotiate just long enough to give the nuclear-armed country that isn't a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty time to prep their "preemptive" bombing run.

Btw I know this post is "fake" (there is no such NYT attribution), however I posted it because it is still correct.

The US' contention is that Iran cannot have (the ability to refine) highly-enriched uranium for weapons.

Israel stole intelligence from the US and developed nuclear weapons despite not being a member of the NPT.

Iran would obviously want the same weapons as the country that KEEPS BOMBING THEM, having seen what happened when Libya gave them up.