An outside view of a nuclear facility in Iran. — AFP/File Iran’s nuclear question looks very different when viewed from Tehran than it does from Washington or Tel Aviv. For a country that has been bombed, encircled and sabotaged for decades, the pursuit of a nuclear deterrent appears less an act of adventurism than a bid for survival. Since 1979, Iran has lived under the shadow of regime-change talk, economic warfare and covert operations led or backed by the US and UK.