If Iran's nuclear program was operational there would be 100,000 less dead Palestinians, and the USA wouldn't be talking about building beachfront resorts there.

Honestly a great debating question.

The point that you keep missing is that I'm not describing my ideal state of the world. I'm describing the current state of the world.

Nukes are the only existential guarantee a state can have nowadays. The leaders of Iran would like their state to continue existing, and have set their strategy accordingly. After Russia invaded Ukraine, and Trump threatened Canada, other nations will be revisiting the calculus around nukes in the years to come.

This is much worse than the world order we had, but there you have it.