do you deny they had the ambition? you don't train such huge proportions of the population towards physics without nuclear weapon ambitions you don't enrich u

do you deny they had the ambition? you don't train such huge proportions of the population towards physics without nuclear weapon ambitions you don't enrich uranium to absurdly high levels for peaceful energy production (sorting isotopes is expensive) you don't assassinate with hydrogen cyanide (generic non-brand equivalent of Zyklon B) random minorities (like Mahsa Amini) just because they would like to study law, and happen to have a less-regime aligned attitude, unless you are running a chemical weapons program (which apparently wasn't really halted after the Iran-Iraq war)