Is Iran developing nuclear weapons?

Good luck on your essay. Here's my opinion and some addt'l info for you. By your own question and comments regarding it I can see you are already highly studied up.

It is not just Israel (and America.. and Europe) that doesn't want Iran to have nuclear capability, it is much of the greater Middle East as well, Iran's own neighbors. They are already fending off Iran in proxy wars one way or another. Iran sponsors suicide bombing, and suicide bombers have requested a small nuclear bomb (which doesn't have to be delivered in a missile/rocket/warhead,) No country is immune, we've all had suicide attacks.

They blow themselves up and anyone else they can take with them. The Middle East and the rest of the world is just so highly unstable. Those countries that have nuclear capability right now need to remain stable, while countries trying to acquire nuclear capability need to be prevented from acquiring it.

Many countries already have nuclear capability. This "status quo" has served our world fine until now, and a disturbance in that status quo, with Iran acquiring nuclear capability and becoming the ninth nuclear powerhouse, as Achmedinijad requested his desire, will mean that Iran would now be worse than a "wild card" in that equation. A wild card is not predictable, but with Iran, they've made their intentions clear by their support of terrorism and their desire for regional and global dominion by being the ninth nuclear powerhouse.

The status quo would undergo a powershift. The Islamic Revolution that started in Iran in 1979 has made no mistake about where their intentions lie. During the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranians sent thousands of their children into the Iraqi minefields to clear them so the adult soldiers could pass.

Those children were armed with "plastic keys to paradise." Iran beheads, stones and supports terrorism and suicide bombing and they are seeking dominion over their Middle East neighbors and other parts of the world. Nobody wants to have a nuclear armed Iran except Iran's equally radical allies.

"The Escalation of the Conflict During Ahmadinejad's Presidency With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rise to power in 2005, the conflict reemerged, with greater intensity. Ahmadinejad reverted to Iran's previous policy of anti-Saudi hegemony, by pushing the export of the revolution, and promoting a messianic Shi'ite vision that stresses the imminent appearance of the Mahdi and the reestablishment of the great Persian Empire. In his second television appearance follow "The message of the Islamic Revolution is global, and not restricted to a specific time or place.

It is a human message, and it will move forward. Have no doubt... Allah willing, Islam will conquer. Islam will conquer what?

It will conquer all the mountaintops of the world." --Memri.org Hamas In Their Own Voices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08L09V0_... Rome Will be Conquered, and we will spread thru Europe in its entirety and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe -- Yunis Al-Astal, Hamas MP & Cleric, Hamas TV 4/13/08 The Saudis are funding the opposition to fight off and overthrow Bashir who is funded by Iran. (Iran, Sudan Leaders Meet KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 28, 2007) - CBS News "Saudi Arabia responded by increasing its support for the Sunni minority in Iraq, for various Muslim and Christian forces in Lebanon, and for others who were confronting Iranian threats in their territory (e.g. in Yemen, Sudan, and West Bank)." - Memri.org Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has condemned the recent arrest warrant for the Sudanese President as 'politically motivated'. Mottaki said in a Thursday meeting with the Sudanese parliament speaker Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir that certain political reasons including the 'disintegration' of Sudan were behind the arrest warrant for the President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi on Thursday condemned the ICC's move, calling it "unjust!". Qashqavi said. -- RushmoreDrive '"Iran is the No.

1 world sponsor of terrorism," said Richard Clarke, ABC consultant and former national security official.' - ABC News "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is criticizing Iran for promoting terrorism and trying to intimidate its neighbors and others in the Middle East. Clinton says Iran poses a serious potential missile threat not only to Israel but also to the United States' European allies and to Russia." - AP.

The first Iran would do if it were to acquire nuclear weapons is nuke Israel.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.