15 years is your own estimate. Many estimates propose much shorter periods.
Do you really say that the West is a greater threat to peace than Iran would be when sitting on a couple of bombs?
Are you making a joke about "An AK47 and perhaps RPG's" ? Did you follow the Lebanon war and notice the weapons that Iran gave to Hezbollah? Do you think Ahmadenijad made a good-natured joke when he said that Israel should be wiped off the map? Did the US or any Western country ever make such a threat?
OK, let's say they get a nuke, what then? Iran is the most peaceful country in the region. The last time they were involved in a war was in the 1980s if you read the article in the OP, and that war was started when Saddam Hussein tried to invade Iran. Now suddenly you're trying to tell us that Iran represents a grave threat to global stability. Yeah right
Next on the list : Why should Iran not give Hezbollah weapons if America gives Israel weapons? Hezbollah at least tried to aim their rockets at military targets. Israel on the other hand went on an indiscriminate bombing rampage. In the last days of the war when they
KNEW that the war was coming to an end they dropped 3 million cluster bomblets over southern Lebanon, and they purposefully aimed them in trajectories designed to
MAXIMISE the number of bomblets that did not explode on impact. There are now 1 million landmines in the form of unexploded bombs waiting to be disturbed by Lebanese civilians. Who's the bigger monster?
And as for the remark about wiping Israel off the map : If I've said it once I've said it a million times, Ahamadinejad said
no such thing. The reports that he did are nothing more than war propaganda based off of a mistranslation of his actual words. What he actually said was, "Israel should dissappear off the page of time", which although unfriendly, does not carry any threat in it whatsoever.
And lastly regarding what remarks western nations have made : What does it matter what they have said? Watch what they do. Judge a man (and a nation) by his actions not his words. The west has a pretty disgusting reputation at the moment.