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Originally Posted by Chock
Well, you can't blame them for a bit of posturing considering they have far more ...
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... about, or someone who is fighting for their homeland and has nothing else to lose?
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Iran is shia Islam. Most Arabs are Sunni Islam. Shia islam in recent years have shown to be a bigger troublemaker. This together with the strengthening of Iran in recent years is the reason why all Gulf states and Saudi Arabai are seriously concerned about them. The Iran-remote-controlled Hezbollah in Lebanon is Iran tool to bring sunni influence in the Palestinian region into trouble - that is the reason why many Sunni politicians remained relatively silent when Israel tried to bomb the hell out of Hezbollah in the last Lebanon war - if successful, Israel would have done them a favour that way. There are some conclusive thoughts that the current battle of the Lebanese army in those camps is an attempt to crack down another raidcal organization, which was supported by Saudi-Arabai and was meant to counter Hezbollah in the region. Since Hezbollah is in the Lebanese government, they tried to use their influence to make officially "neutral" Lebanese army taking care of their rival, whi9ch then would be in the interest of Iran, and Syria, although Syria'S interests again are slightly different and they realized that they cannot afford to let Iran interfere in Lebanon the way it did in the past years, not without this happening at the cost of ongoing future Syrian chances to dominate Lebanon, like it used to do in the past years. All these factions nevertheless are Arabs, while the Iranians are Persians. It is a clash between Sunnis and Shias, Arabs and Persians, Iran and the gulf states, Saudi Arabia, and other sunni states. Compared to that kettle of boiling water, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets overestimated time and again. The Palestinian problem is the less important of the two.
Schwierig, hm? 
This only to put your remark back into perpective that Iran only is interested in Iraq from a position of self-defence. It's exactly the opposite.
Their attempt to gain nukes, whcih I take as granted, is also a split affair. Ironically, Iran NEEDS alternative energy, since currently it uses too much of the oil it produces for it's own needs, loosing to many incomes from oil it just burns, but does not sell. That way, it cannot push economical develoepemtn like they want and try, their finances and incomes remain too weak. At the same time they have learned by the example of Iraq 2003, that if you are in the way of US policies, you will get accused of developing nukes, and when you reject it, you will be called a liar and get attacked. So you need those damn nukes for real, to prevent being attacked, that way prooving that the accusation is true - you grab for nukes indeed. And finally, nukes are a wonderful tool to gain prestige in the Muslim world, and become a stronger player and be able to act with more determination amongst muslim states, and towards the world as well, since you have become very much invulnerable to military attacks.
So, the interest of Iran to want nukes is logical and easy to understand. One should not expect them to act against their interests, or to act stupidly.