An Optimistic Exercise

A war simulation was conducted in Israel that presumed that Iran possessed nuclear weapons. The war game had too rosy a tinge as it assumed rational actions from fanatic actors. Iran will not necessarily conduct an underground or atmospheric test when it achieves weaponized status. The first hint of Iranian success may come as Tel Aviv falls victim to atomic incineration. To suppose that mutually assured destruction matters to End Time cultists assumes too much. Iran is a nation that publicly hanged a girl reputedly of sixteen for promiscuity and hoisted homosexual teen boys to their deaths on a gibbet in a town square. The mullahs and the thugs that keep them in power do not recognize international norms, which is why they have seized an embassy (the US embassy- ours), abducted hikers as spies, and ransomed a young French academic for two Iranian prisoners held by France including a notorious murderer. One would be foolish to think that a nation that follows no rules in any other context would suddenly behave like other states in possession of nuclear weapons.