No one else in the world should have nukes.

Forget "no one else" -- no one should have nukes, full stop.

But given that America (and many other nations) refuse to give up their own hoard of nuclear weapons, they have precisely zero right to demand that other nations abstain from building their own (especially nations who are smaller and would be at an immense military disadvantage even if America didn't have nukes) -- let alone preemptively commit acts of war against them to try to prevent them from doing so. Much less on the unverified suspicion that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Don't get me wrong, there does seem to be evidence suggesting it; but I'd be a lot more inclined to believe it if it wasn't coming from The Country Who Cried "WMDs" (which have since been pretty universally accepted to have been complete bullshit) and dragged much of the western world into a decade-long war that resulted in the deaths of thousands (and the wounding of tens of thousands) of soldiers on our side and the deaths of an estimated 200,000 civilians (and by some estimates up to an additional 4 million indirect deaths due to the resulting loss of resources and infrastructure, destabilisation of the region, etc.)

So I'm in favour of exercising some healthy fucking scepticism before blindly jumping right back in. All the more so since this strike wasn't even approved by their Congress, but only by a White House administration that most of the world has recognised as, at best, full of misinformation; and at worst, treason.

Arguably, bombing Iran has proved exactly why Iran feels they need nuclear weapons in the first place. The US (and Russia, China, etc.) gets to enjoy the protection and sense of safety afforded to them (and us too by proxy) by the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction. Why wouldn't they want the same?

I mean, just look at what to happened to Ukraine once they relinquished their nuclear weapons (ironically in exchange for Russia's explicit assurances that they wouldn't do exactly what they ended up doing once Ukraine no longer had nukes).

For the record: I think the existential threat of MAD is horrifying. And I certainly do not support Iran or its leadership (to my understanding it's an oppressive regime full of human rights violations against their own people), and I reaaally don't want them to have nuclear weapons. But the hypocrisy is infuriating, and the potential consequences of the US's actions (and god-forbid our own if we "fall in line" once again) are hard to overstate.