Could an Iranian bomb LOWER tensions?

Adam Lowther is the latest of a number of analysts to make just that claim. Read why.

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Update, Jan. 2, 2020:

I don't agree with all, or even much of, Lowther's reasons for WHY Iran having a bomb might lower tensions in the Middle East. But this blog post, which started trending in early fall to become one of my 10-most read of 2019, says SOMETHING about how out of whack the Middle East is since the accession of Donald J. Trump to the presidency.

His assassination of Qassem Soleimani is only the latest installment of the out-of-whackness, from Trump putting his hands on the Saudi palantir (to presumably bless the Yemen butchery) through moving the US embassy to Jerusalem to tightening the screws on the Islamic Republic. Trump is fickle enough and petulant enough he might have done this even with Iran having The Bomb. But, almost certainly, his neocon advisors would have done their best to talk him out of it.

That said, it may not be long before they get the bomb. Enrichment will go full speed ahead from this point.