Is it wrong for Iran to want to have nuclear weapons? Israel has them - why don't they need to denuclearise if we talk about peace?
Anon is saying: Israel has them, therefore it's unfair to deny the Iranian regime the nuclear weapons it seeks.
The fairness argument sounds intuitive until you ask what 'fair' actually means in a world where states have different intentions, different records, and different legal obligations
In geopolitics, morality isn't about ensuring everyone has the same toys. It's about harm reduction.
If you apply a consistent moral principle like "it is wrong for a state to explicitly call for the mass murder of another people," the deceptively simplistic fairness assertion falls apart.
Iran's regime hangs protesters from cranes, murders ~40,000 of its citizens in a couple days, and routinely calls for genocide of another people...which makes it awkward to argue they should have the most destructive weapons in human history bEcAuSe FaIrNeSs.
This isn't a rational argument, let alone a moral one.
Which of these is not like the others?
The US's nuclear deterrence threat: "Don't attack us with nukes or we'll take you with us"
France's/UK's nuclear deterrence threat: "Don't attack us with nukes or we'll take you with us."
Israel's nuclear deterrence intent: "Don't wipe us out, or we'll take you with us"
The Iranian regime's explicit, publicly-stated intent for their weapons: "Death to Israel".
The Islamic Republic has made "Death to Israel" and the destruction of the Jewish state a core pillar of its identity for nearly 50 years. It funds proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas on the basis of this shared, explicitly genocidal goal.
When a regime that regularly executes its own citizens for protesting and that calls for the erasure of another country wants nukes, the world sees a high-risk actor shaped by an apocalyptic theological faction whose doctrine holds that engineering chaos accelerates the return of the Mahdi. It's an actual operational framework that treats civilizational catastrophe as a goal.
No country officially supports Iran acquiring a bomb. No sane leader even approves of the idea in private.
Since antizionists are fond of citing internal law they haven't read, let's look at the legal angle:
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. By signing it, they legally committed to never developing nuclear weapons in exchange for access to peaceful nuclear technology. When the regime pursues a bomb, it isn't just making a weapon, it's also breaking a legal contract it chose to sign - and it has already violated the NPT repeatedly.
Israel did not sign on to the NPT and is not, therefore, bound by it.
The "fairness" framing of the Ask also ignores how Israel actually holds its weapons.
Israel has never officially admitted to having nukes - it has conducted no nuclear tests and made no announcements in a policy called amimut (opacity). The purpose of amimut is to prevent a regional arms race. A confirmed arsenal might force every neighbor to seek to match it, but an unconfirmed one deters without triggering an arms race.
Iran, by contrast, has been openly enriching uranium toward weapons-grade while chanting "Death to Israel" at state functions.
Anon's framing falsely assumes the only relevant variable is who has the weapon.
In reality, the relevant variables are (1) who holds it, (2) what they've said they'll do with it, (3) what legal obligations they've accepted, and (4) what their actual record of behavior looks like.
By every one of those measures, Israel and Iran are not comparable cases.
Pretending they're comparable and calling it a matter of fairness isn't an attempt at moral consistency - it's selective framing meant to conceal the overtly malign and dangerous intent of the regime in Iran.
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