Easy their princess
The fatwa was unfortunate, if not accurate
A weapon like a nuclear bomb that kills humans, men, women, children so indiscriminately is possibly haram, so the fatwa itself seems logical
However Iran seems to have pushed gradually towards a nuclear weapons program REGARDLESS
What held it back wasn't the fatwa, it was the threat of U.S attack backed by a coalition
In 2003, the U.S was entrenched in iraq and it has already been in Afghanistan since 2001
Iran was surrounded, it takes time to develop a nuclear warhead and time to make a workable bomb/warhead that can be placed on a missile
The U.S was thrown out of Afghanistan only 4 years ago
And half left Iraq about 10
Iran did it's best, as a isolated and sanctioned state to create a weapons industry whilst trying to not be attacked by a coalition of states
It didn't help that the county was full of shah supporting murtad scum, who are attacking their own country to make it a lackey for the west