Nuclear deal gives Tehran a powerful hand | The National

"Iran’s adversaries grumble that it has emerged as the big winner from the nuclear deal, usually exaggerating the implications of the agreement.

But in a bigger sense, Iran has clearly won an important victory, not by actually building nuclear weapons, but by simply demonstrating the capacity to do so. The grim reality of the international geopolitical order since the Second World War has been that it is nuclear-weapons capability that buys nation states a seat at the grown-ups’ table."