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The POD is that Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah starts a nuclear weapons development program, in the years just before the Iranian revolution as a way of defending Iran in case of a Soviet Invasion.

Although the exact time when Iran developed nuclear weapons could be either before the Iranian Revolution or immediately after it. Say in this POD Iran has nuclear weapons by the time of the Iranian Revolution. It would be definite that both Saudi Arabia and especially Iraq just before or after the Iranian Revolution would start a nuclear weapons development programs to create nuclear weapons in order to defend itself from Iran.

If nuclear weapons were available in during the Iran-Iraq war , I don't believe Khoemini would use them, since he against even developing nuclear weapons let along using them. Although if Iraq possessed nuclear weapons during the Iran-Iraq war Saddam Hussein would definitely use them.

How would both Iran, Saudi Arabia and possibly Iraq possessing nuclear weapons change the whole history of the Middle East from the Iranian Revolution onwards?
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