I'm sorry to say such an adolescent thing here, but, "Duh?". For a delicate regime with many bordering enemies, and with an international nuclear policy in tota

I'm sorry to say such an adolescent thing here, but, "Duh?". For a delicate regime with many bordering enemies, and with an international nuclear policy in total shambles, it's the most sensible thing to do. By a country mile. If I was Grand Iranian Overlord, you can bet that every national effort would be, right now, to get a nuke as soon as humanly possible. The Shia/Persian state is a sad little mound in the middle of a Sunni and - before Gaza, anyway - Sunni/Israeli block. I imagine the primary reason for the October attacks was to drive a wedge into that developing relationship, knowing Likud would react very Old-Testament-y. People will make scary color coded maps with all the Iranian proxies, but proxies are just proxies, and some of those proxies - like in Syria - are as dangerous to Iranian policy as they might be to Iran's enemies. Ask America how relying on dangerous third parties went for it in South America - they might have established a firm anticommunist platform, but at the risk of destabilizing the whole continent.