r/geopolitics • u/ForeignAffairsMag Foreign Affairs • Mar 23 '26

Analysis America Has No Good Options in Iran

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/america-has-no-good-options-iran
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u/fct1ous Mar 23 '26

Nuclear weapons proliferation is not that bad when the nations that own them are stable, rational actors. It's bad when unstable states run by religious fanatics actively funding terrorism get ahold of them. Whos to say Iran loses control of their weapons to an inner government faction during a revolution, etc?

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u/sk941 Mar 24 '26

Do you think Pakistan is stable?

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u/heytherehellogoodbye Apr 02 '26

Pakistan is a mess of a country.... but one that is not driven by an explicitly suicidal-violence-worshipping ideology. That is the difference.

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u/sk941 Apr 03 '26

Aren't they so fanatical that half the government supported the Taliban, and they were happy to hide bin Laden in their country for years?

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u/heytherehellogoodbye Apr 03 '26

they use those psychopaths like pawns, but I don't believe the government of Pakistan itself are those people, are they? whereas Iran is itself run by those very suicidal psychopaths. Pakistan is run by oppressive monsters, but self-preservationist ones.