In a previous article on the relation between Iran and political violence and terror in the Middle East, I suggested that after the international and somewhat regional isolation of Iran due to the nature of its ruling regime after the Shiite Islamic revolution, the Iranian regime resorted to aggressiveness and aggressive expansion in the region while adopting an extremist agenda and rhetoric resting on its religious ideological basis.

After the regime of the Shiite Islamic revolution was well established in Iran, the Iranian regime started soon to export the ‘Islamic revolution’ according to its religious-ideological basis to the neighbor countries in the region, especially in the areas inhabited by Shiite populations.

The failure to achieve this goal by the Iranian religious regime, which resulted in keeping this regime internationally and, in particular, regionally isolated, drove the Iranian regime to turn its attention toward the question of preserving the regime itself an its rule in Iran at least, and to search for means and assets to achieve this objective.

Then, the search by the Iranian regime was actually directed to find something like insurance policy for this regime, especially after Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, which resulted in a new balance of power and situation in which the Iranian regime found itself encompassed by the American military presence and influence all around.

Therefore, for the Iranian regime, the ultimate insurance policy for its very existence and preservation can be obtained by the nuclear bomb; and it is somewhat right about that. The Iranian nuclear bomb can easily bring the required guarantees by the Iranian regime from the international powers, especially the United States and other major western countries. Furthermore, the Iranian nuclear bomb would definitely change the balance of power and the geopolitics of the Middle East on Iranian regime’s behalf to a large extent.

Iranian regime is going after a nuclear bomb, and the Iranian nuclear program is ultimately intended to achieve this goal. No one, especially in the Middle East should have any illusions about this clear question, which has conclusive indications including the Iranian confession of lying to the IAEA about the Iranian nuclear program from the beginning.

Iranian regime should not have a nuclear bomb whatever it takes; otherwise, it would have disastrous implications for the Middle East as an ultimate empowerment to the theocratic extremist brutal Iranian regime and its Middle East Totalitarian Axis over moderation, democracy and modernist forces, inflicting the region a prevailing extremism.