"I hope Russia is going to defend Iran.
Since the US not only has nukes, but used them in Japan and gave nuke to a belligerent like Israel, then the US is the last person who should complain about anyone else having nukes.
Its not just hypocrisy, but against all legal principles.
You either have to have equality, or the US is trying to create a world wide dictatorship." R5 #467
That's one scenario.
It's not the only possible scenario.
It may not be the best scenario for the good People of Iran.
It may not be the best for humanity.
BUT !
Uncle Sam's hands are not clean here.
I don't know if this is the earliest, but among the U.S.' earliest examples of shameful foreign sovereignty excess was the disgraceful CIA-assisted overthrow of Iran's duly elected Mossadegh.
And here it is a new millennium. And the U.S. is still at it, ham-handedly choosing which Iranian leaders are allowed to survive.
- outrageous -
"American people are friends of Liberty everywhere, but custodians only of their own." John Adams
Trump's repeated excuse about not allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon is twaddle.
Obama already accomplished that.
IF Trump had something better, the correct protocol would be to implement Trump's superior replacement,
thereby superseding Obama's, Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, & Iran's JCPOA.
Trump's priority was obviously to insult Obama first, and attend to global nuclear security second. "Mission Accomplished"

Another Republican president that prefers War to peace.