If you think 15 years is long, read my topic
A short history of US regime's aggression towards Iran where I cover the most significant events there going back roughly a century!
The tide has turned in the past 50 years though. Today the US regime has a very weak military and it requires between 1.5 to 2 million troops to even initiate an invasion and the result of such an invasion will be a catastrophic defeat worst than May 2026, and with at least 80% of those troops returning in body bags. We saw this recently from a military perspective where Iran dominated the US military in only matter of days and devastated the regime's Central Command.
This is exactly why the US regime has been using economic terrorism (aka sanctions), espionage and assassinations, using terrorist proxies (eg. al-Qaeda, Israel, ISIS, Komoleh, Pejak, PKK, Jaysh al-Zulm, MEK,...) to attack Iran over the past decades and finally stooped to carrying out terrorist attacks directly itself recently (eg. the triple tap bombing of the elementary school in Minab to murder 168 children as young as 7 years old, the bombing of hospitals, kids gyms like the Lamerd sports hall with cluster munitions, residential areas, universities, ...).
I see a solution to this threat is Iran, very legitimately, bailing from the NPT and taking on the same 'ambiguity' policy.
NPT died for Iran the day the head of terrorist organization called IAEA, Rafael Grossi decided to write a fake report to give the terrorist attacks against civilians in Iran back in June 2025 a legitimate face. A report he later denied himself. All IAEA
inspectors spies were kicked out back then.
As for capability, Iran acquired the knowledge decades ago. But the thing is Iranians don't want to build nukes for a couple of reasons. Most import reason is ideological (refer to the fatwa by martyr Ayatollah Khamenei that considers nukes haram) but also logically too. Iran wants a denuclearized region not an arms race considering that West Asia is filled with a lot of unstable family dictatorships that hang by a thread. If they acquire nukes and then get overthrown, their WMDs will fall into the hands of radical groups or worse in the hands of Takfiri terrorist groups. Nobody wants that.
Could Iran assemble a nuclear capability (if they don't already have one) underground even under nuclear attack? I would not rule it out, and at this point I would shed exactly zero tears to see some Iranian nuclear testing right in the middle of the Tel Aviv (assuming Israel used nukes first.) It would solve a lot of the worlds problems and I doubt that I am the only one who feels this way these days.
You definitely aren't the only one who feels like this.
The only problem is that you are forgetting that even if Iran had nukes, it is impossible to hit the Zionist regime in
Tel-Aviv occupied Yafa with it because of a simple fact: the first victims will be Palestinians in occupied lands (in West Bank, in Gaza, in Occupied Qods, ...) the second victims will be people in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
There are other ways to wipe out the entire Zionist occupiers of Palestine in a cleaner way which I don't like getting into.
Another thing you are forgetting is that Israel is a small and insignificant terrorist organization. It has never been categorized in the list of "threats" Iran faces. Not even top 10! To put simply these terrorists cannot even fly 1400km to reach Iran's borders without the full help of NATO (the aircraft is American, the fuel tankers is from US or EU, the air-launched missiles are US-made, the satellite and guidance system is from US, the electronic warfare is 100% US,...).
This is crystal clear from the fact that how a very small resistance group living in a completely surrounded open prison with basic handguns could easily defeat the Zionist genocide army within hours during Operation al-Aqsa Storm!
The threat Iran has always faced has been from NATO and more specifically from US regime and the Epstein Class. So any kind of nuclear retaliation will be against them...