It's a purely political issue. Been stoking the fires of fear and hate over it for at least 25 years. Only alt to this deal or any deal is a military strike and every analyst-site online has said that wouldn't work and only ensure they seek nukes. Yet the naysayers are all talking like that's the best solution. Only people for a military solution all seem to make a lot of money from such things.
And that's a good point. The same characters have been claiming that Iran was a year or two away from getting a bomb for 25 years now, but Iran doesn't seem that keen on getting a bomb,really.
The real problem with iran is not whether or not they have a bomb (nuclear weapons are pretty much unusable when everyone else has them) but the fact that they are extending their influence to Yemen, Syria and Iraq, places where our meddling and desire for "Democracy" gave them oppurtunities.
Also worth noting, the US gave Iran their nuclear reactors back when their government was our *****. Then after the Revolution, we suddenly didn't like them any more and their nuclear program was objectionable.
It was Uncle Sam who first gave Iran nuclear equipment
"A nuclear reactor was sold to Iran as part of President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program."
How the United States helped Iran set up its nuclear program
"The story of Iran's interest in nuclear technology goes back to the 1950s.
Iran was then being led by the young shah, who had been installed in power in 1953 after a CIA-led coup against the elected government of Mohamad Mossadeq. The then US president, Dwight Eisenhower, who had sanctioned the coup, introduced a program called Atoms for Peace.
Mohammad Sahimi, an expert on chemical and petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California, says the United States intended, through this program, to share its nuclear technology with developing countries like Iran for peaceful uses of nuclear energy."
Born In The USA: How America Created Iran's Nuclear Program
"It seemed like a good idea at the time.
It was part of President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, an initiative to provide countries with peaceful, civilian nuclear technologies in the hope that they wouldn't pursue military nuclear programs.
The beneficiaries included Israel, India, Pakistan — and Iran, then ruled by a U.S.-backed monarch, Shah Reza Pahlavi."
So maybe what all the fury over Iran's nuclear program's really about is trying to fix yet another foreign policy fuckup.