[Skybird]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

So what are the west to do, in the context of Iran eventually achieving a nuclear strike capability?

There are no workable options that would enable the West to get the result it wants. There will neither be nuclear war against Iran, nor repetetive conventional wars over the coming half century or so, "one strike per administration". So the most likely outcome indeed is this:

Originally Posted by Skybird

The most likely outcome of all this? A nuclear armed Iran in the future, an Iranian driven nuclear proliferation to anti-Western terror groups, and a nuclear arms race throughout the ME. Top candiates for participants are Saudi-Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Turkey.

I miss the cold war. After Cuba, things were easier, more stable and more predictable then.