But, but, but...all the pointy-headed intellectual liberals said Iran stopped working on the bomb years ago...
Yeah, that was our first clue as to their intentions.
Yeah, but that was after they began working on the bomb. Apparently the coneheads assumed that their incredible diplomatic skills were able to persuade the Iranians from pursuing nuclear weapons. It was going to be one of their greatest feats. In fact, Hollywood had already done movies about their brilliant negotiating skills.
Unfortunately, the reality of situation is that according to some of the released documents from Iraq, the Iraqi's had resorted to biological and chemical attacks to stop the wave of Iranian Mujaheddin suicide attackers. So the Iranians knew the power of WMD's more so then perhaps any other civilization on the planet. And we are dealing with one of the oldest civilizations on the planet. And one that had been completely overrun by the Mongols. The prevailing Mongol tactic at the time was to only leave people alive that the Mongols wanted alive.