Pakistan having the bomb must give CIA annalists, U.S. Military, and any National Security types nightmares. Pakistan an unstable country, who has marketed nuclear technology worldwide, possibly a client state for nuclear technology from China, having detonated a nuclear weapon now belongs to the Big Weapons Club. I do agree that Oil is the driver for anything to do with the Mid-East, however one of the big reasons I think that Pakistan gets a pass is that Pakistan has been a conduit to supply arms and training to throw out the Russians in the past and now a platform to jump into Afghanistan. Having the seaport of Karachi and sharing 500 miles of border with Iran is another reason to give Pakistan a pass.

Iran has plenty to worry about, our past actions installing with help from the CIA, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1953 in reaction to Iran nationalizing oil in 1951 that shut out the Anglo-Persian Oil Company a British company that morphed into BP or British Petroleum or as BP public relations likes to say, Beyond Petroleum. When the Iranians kicked out the Shah and let Ayatollah Khomeini back in from exile in France in 1979, the U.S. has wanted to kick some Iranian ass for close to 20 years now. Now with a hot lead occupational U.S. Army building permanent bases in Iraq, to project power in the region, the Iranians have a lot to worry about with the dogs of war oh so willing to bite any country that thinks they own, or thinks that they control the flow of oil under their ground.

Iran has to feel a little surrounded by U.S. Military muscle that is under the control of Oil guys in the White House.

"Takes a bucket of blood for a barrel of oil"

Steven Bruton