I suspect Iran already has some nuclear capability cobbled together from fissile material collected from warheads that have conveniently disappeared - like the 250 Ukrainian warheads missing - and/or supplied by friendly North Korea in exchange for Oil... this is from 1 year ago http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/8/14604 "Russia's General Staff has no information about whether Ukraine has given 250 nuclear warheads to Iran or not," General Yury Baluyevsky, also deputy defense minister, said in response to an article in Novaya Gazeta newspaper Monday. "I do not comment on unsubstantiated reports." We have evidence that Iran currently has up to 12 Kh-55 strategic cruise missiles with 3,000km range capable of carrying 200 kiloton nuclear warheads, which can be land launched and reverse engineered... In any case, If Iran was clever enough to obtain this crucial equipxement, I can't see why it could not get the warheads to fitt and at least, some of the 250 nukes for unaccounted... This thread will be dediced to researhing the available evdence pointing to an existing nuclear capability of Iran to serve as deterence to its potential enemies...