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Originally Posted by AnimeFan188
Though if the dictatorship supports terrorism, all bets are off.
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That is 21st century propaganda, the war on terror and similar stuff. TBT terrorism is nothing new, if you apply current standards to 20th century politics the USSR was a terrorist supporting state and the same could apply to the USA, which supported the taliban when the soviets had to deal with them. Heck, you could call terrorist to all the small and big tribes that fought against the roman empire.
The simple truth is that after the fall of the USSR many countries have realized it is a liability to have the smaller countries possess nuclear weapons, because yesterdays ally might become tomorrows adversary, so for the USA Iran's anti-isreael stance is pretty convenient, sadly that does not work with pakistan and north korea. But even as bat-shit crazy as the Iranians are, they do not want to use nuclear weapons on israel since the wind would carry the radioactive resiude back to iran. The one to be worried about is the north koreans, since those are really insane, their people are dying of hunger and would no doubt love to go out with a big nuclear bang.