Greed is the reason
Country or slum, these places, like India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the multitude of surrounding "nations" are now, and have been a breeding ground for all nature of disease, pestilence and terrorism. The hope is that Iran's development of nuclear capability coupled with that of India and Pakistan will result in an atomic cleansing of the Middle East. Then the rest of the world can get on with the business of creating a better, brighter and healthier future.