Quote Originally Posted by Husein View Post
I also wonder what would it take to have "Darth Vader" accept the Iranian ability to possess nuclear weapons as a sovereign state. Would Iranian nuclear possession be a-okay if the despotic Shah were in power? Lord knows people like Shariati and others who wanted to take the Iranian Revolution into a more... socialist direction would not do the trick.

I know that nothing short of the DPRK abandoning socialism would make nuclear possession not a horrendous event in the history of mankind in your view.
it wouldn't be okay if the shah were in power because his role was as a US-endorsed leader. if we didn't want him to have nukes, he wouldn't have them. his job was to watch out for those goddamned soviets

but also this whole concept of nation-states is new and dumb. superpowers have always dictated who gets to do what all the time