That is a good alternative honestly. Right now we're a puppet government selling our resources for the penny to China, Russia and for the cause of Palestine. If tomorrow China decides to stop buying our oil, Iranians will have to eat grass like North Koreans.
I don't give a flying duck about Palestinians or the Lebanese people. If it were up to me, I would happily arm Israel to bomb the duck out of them. Heck, I would even send Iranian soldiers to help the Israelis bomb the eff out of them.
As for the Yemenis, I respect the Houthis of Yemen for having balls and standing for their independence but that's about it.
As for our nuclear capabilities, there's no such thing. Iran never had nuclear capabilities to begin with.

I wouldn't call a few thousand IR-1 and IR-2 machines producing miniscule amounts of enriched uranium "nuclear capability".