The Ayatollah’s Iran knows full well the potential of a nuclear program in a neighboring state but it doesn’t stop them from coming up with crap about their own program being “peaceful” :
SEPTEMBER 30, 1980 : (IRAN-IRAQ WAR: IRANIAN ATTEMPT, USING F4 PHANTOMS LEFT OVER FROM PRE-REVOLUTION IRAN, TO DESTROY IRAQ’S OSIRAK NUCLEAR REACTOR; IRAN FAILS DUE TO POOR PILOT TRAINING)
JUNE 7, 1981 : (ISRAEL BOMBS OSIREK IRAQI NUCLEAR REACTOR, BRAZILIAN SCIENTISTS {see 1980sAMERICAS} WERE HELPING IRAQ THERE )