No one is going to cover for them. If they tried to build nuclear warheads, they would get attacked by Israel same as Iraq was. This whole comical political staged rhetoric has no real chance of representing what is happening on the ground in Iran. I am sure you have a better feel for what the conversation is like, how the players are taking balls and swinging for the fences, but all I see is the same normal development of nuclear power that happened in a dozen nations; Iran says they are going forward with that development while we claim to be "catching them" doing that. Do they have the right to run their own nation or don't they? I don't see anyone bothering to nail Israel for their illegal secret development of the bomb, and it is pretty widely understood that they have it. The USA takes the stance that Israel is allowed to go nuclear while everyone around Israel is not allowed... we make enemies of half the planet so we can coddle and waste bundles of money on this speck of a nation that gives nothing back in return except massive financial destruction and loss of empire. It is painfully obvious that the modern nation of Israel has some kind of an invisible hand ruling the top power brokers in America, if not, we are truly the biggest pigeons on the history of the world stage.