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I'm concerned about it because the European countries that have less reason to trust our intelligence services anymore (Germany, France, etc.) seemed equally alarmed about Iran's intentions regarding nuclear fuel enrichment. Early on, they went into full diplomatic mode and tried to negotiate with Iran to stop their plans. These countries have what I assume to be effective intelligence agencies, so I figure there must be at least some cause for concern.
Seriously, the only two countries on the Security Council who don't support enacting economic sanctions against Iran over this issue are China and Russia. Everyone understands that they have some pretty serious economic reasons for opposing sanctions, but according to NPR, even those two countries are nervous about Iran's intentions.
And why WOULDN'T Iran want nuclear weapons? For years they felt threatened by Saddam Hussein, not to mention the US. It seems apparent to me that there is a serious hatred of Israel in the current leadership, and Israel is widely accepted to possess upwards of 200 nuclear devices themselves. Wouldn't Iran want nukes, just in case they got into a furball with Israel?
On top of all this, Iranians have a healthy nationalistic view towards themselves and their country (which may be well deserved, as they are a culture thousands of years old, and control a large amount of a commoddity that everyone else in the world is willing to pay out the nose for!). Achieving the difficulty of designing and producing nuclear weapons demonstrates the Iranian society's resolve, intelligence, and capabilities to the world, and places them in a pretty small field of players who have the same weapons.
I think that the idea is plausible. What I don't find plausible is that the US will go into Iran - especially when we are still in 2 fronts.
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