Need friends to use nukes.

On 22 June, the US bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran. "The operation - codenamed Midnight Hammer - involved 125 US military aircraft and targeted three nuclear facilities." "Fourteen GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) were dropped on the Fordow site," which "weigh 13,000 kg and are able to penetrate 18m (60ft) of concrete or 61m (200ft) of earth before exploding." BBC. "Iran was bombed blue by Israel and the United States of America, simply because it does not have a nuclear weapon." The Print. The US is the only nation on earth to have used atom bombs on Hiroshima on 6 August and on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. wikipedia. But, they were comprehensively defeated by the Vietcong despite indiscriminate bombing and the deaths (BBC) of over one million Vietnamese. The panicked flight from Saigon (gettyimages) is history. Nuclear weapons and MOPs did not prevent a US defeat in Afghanistan and a swift takeover by the Taliban in a matter of days. Arab News. Mr K Subrahmanyam, an IAS officer, was an ardent believer in India developing nuclear weapons after the Chinese tested one. wikipedia. "To save yourself from attack, get armed with nuclear weapons," he said. Within two weeks of India testing its nuclear devices, Pakistan, with Chinese help, tested at least five bombs of its own. ET. Nuclear weapons have not protected India from Pakistan using regular terrorist attacks within India in a policy of 'death by a thousand cuts'. wikipedia. Pakistani troops occupied Kargil district of Ladakh in 1999. Over 500 Indian troops died and 1,363 were wounded in pushing the Pakistanis back beyond the Line of Control (LOC). wikipedia. During Operation Sindoor, following a terrorist attack at Pahalgam killing 26 Indian civilians, "No Pakistan military facilities have been targeted." pib.gov.in. However, Pakistan had no hesitation in attacking Indian armed forces with the help of Chinese satellite tracking. The Asia Live. "A senior Indian defence official posted in Indonesia has said that the Indian Air Force (IAF) lost some fighter jets during the May 7 strikes on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) because the country's political leadership had restricted attacks on Pakistani military targets. ET. Why are our leaders so terrified that they are willing to sacrifice our pilots so as not to provoke Pakistan? Because we are actually terrified of what China might do to protect Pakistan. Apparently, US strikes on Iran will make North Korea more determined to hang on to nuclear weapons. CNN. North Korea is forced to continue its nuclear program by China as a buffer against the Mutual Defense Treaty between the US and South Korea (wikipedia). China is the real hostile rogue state. However, Iran does not share a border with China and has no real friends. Nuclear weapons will be of no use to it. Just like they are not protecting India against Pakistan. Just as they did not prevent humiliating defeats for the US in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Iran's people are suffering. Unnecessarily.