Acquiring nukes seems like the best way for any country to protect themselves against outside interference.
We know that as soon as Gaddafi decommissioned his nukes, Libya was targeted and invaded. If Iraq actually did have nukes, the USA wouldn’t have been so brazen to invade.
China, Russia, and North Korea’s acquisitions of nukes are also some of the main reasons why they are not easy targets for direct US invasion.
If Iran had nukes, it would drastically limit Israel’s ability to indiscriminately attack Iranian assets.
Western policies against nuclear proliferation always seem to target the countries that need them the most to ensure national sovereignty, and never refer to their own nukes.
For example, they always fearmonger about “rogue states” like North Korea getting nukes, while being perfectly okay with Israel’s own nukes. It might be best if these policies are ignored entirely.
This is historically inaccurate and disrespectful of the memory of the madlad Gaddafi: Gaddafi never had nukes. He was accused of having a nuclear weapons program but that was highly doubtful because it was coming from the Bush admin in 2003. Regardless Gaddafi claimed to have decommissioned the WMD program that probably never existed. It was also a decade later that he was targeted by the Obama admin in 2013.