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I was referring to 2014 when I said that, but it's neither here nor there. Especially since it's not like Iran hasn't been actively shooting missiles at Israel for decades.
And I'm not stan-ing for Israel here. I agree that their behavior has been terrible and has been doing terrible things to their neighbors. But that is in fact something that has changed that could push Iran towards a nuclear option. And as bad as Israel is being, it would still be very very bad if Iran nukes them.
Yes, it would be bad. But Iran has been cooperating so far until Trump fucked everything up. That's the thing that changed - letting Israel run rampant, killing everyone they want without a peep (or just strongly worded letters). There is no difference between Iran cooperating and having nuclear power plants, and Iran not cooperating, trying to make nukes. They were attacked because "Israel could", not because there was danger of them getting a nuclear bomb.
It is a manufactured casus beli to hit a sovereign state, murder its military brass, politicians and scientists. It is literally the same logic that Russia used against Ukraine - and equally as nonsensical as it was then - the "they were going to attack me and so I attacked them" excuse.