The current opposition to a nuclear deal with Iran is strange. Ever since the Iranian people deposed the US backed Shah Iran has been treated as an illegitimate country. This is absurd. Look at a map. Iran is a large country with a 4000 year history. How could they not be a major regional player? Look at the USA. Nowhere near the Middle East. Yet USA conservatives insist we should be the strongest player in the Middle east. See a problem? Iran has endorsed a nuclear free Middle East. Israel, which has a nuclear weapons program refused to endorse it and the USA vetoed this sensible proposition. The only reason is the far fetched ( to the rest of  world)  idea that Iran cannot be trusted with a nuclear weapon but Israel can ( to say nothing of the USA, which is the only country to have used one in war) and this must be because Jews and Christians are good and Muslims bad. Iran calling for the destruction of Israel is really no different than the US calling for a regime change in Iran. Obviously when Iran calls for the destruction of Israel they are not talking about physically destroying the Levant. Racism is not the proper term for the attitude towards Iran, but it is close. Iran cannot be a legitimate player in the region while a country descended from European immigrants ( Israel) or the USA ( same) is held to be legit. How can this be anything but the anti Muslim prejudice that is the greatest recruiting tool for Daesh ( ISIS). If anyone has a claim to be a legitimate nuclear power in the region it is Iran. Not the USA. Not Israel.