And we in the west are to dumb to realize they had this capability and didn't bother using it, not even now. However, it is now on the table since we have gone in and decided to destroy their country. Before this there is no way Russia and especially China would allow Iran to attack anyone with nukes.
Look at the missile accuracy of Iran, not much a leap to think they could have easily (or with a little help) built a nuke. But they didn't because they didn't want to.
I keep seeing stories about them being the #1 sponsor of terrorism as well. All the funding coming from them. Yet no-one talks about the more than 2 billion a year the US gives the Taliban and Al Qaeda. I think that puts Iran in the #2 spot.
Let's go even deeper.
Iraq. We tried to blame them for 9/11 with 0 evidence. Then it was WMD' again with no evidence
Syria, no idea WTF we were doing there
Afghanistan. Other than securing the poppies not much accomplished.
Libya, got rid of Kadaffi which left a power vacuum and the place is still in shambles
And now Iran. Again, no evidence of any nuclear program other than enriching uranium. Even so, who is the US or any other country to decide who can and cant have nukes? I imagine if they did have one that could reach anywhere in the world they probably wouldn't be getting hammered right now.
So the #2 sponsor of terrorism wants the US out of the Middle East. Based on the above it seems like a reasonable request.
As for service members getting harmed in the past, would those same service members have gotten harmed if the US military stayed on US soil and protected US?
Oh but then we get the argument that the US is just protecting US interests. The oil. Except trump has come out and said repeatedly over the last week that the US doesn't need oil from the ME because we produce enough of our own.
So there has been how many invasions of other countries over there now and we destroy everything in every one of them but Iran is the terrorists?