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This article captures an exhaustive view of entire dynamics of Iran's nuclear programme, its costs, benefits and cascading effects on the region in particular and globe at large. Undeniably, Iran claims such a programme for civilian purpose, but that does not suggest that she would not, at any given time, transform enriched uranium into deadly nuclear arsenal notwithstanding her official handouts to the contrary. In fact, she has several underlying compulsions, and one, we believe, is her ethno-national and ideological incompatibility with and her scare from Israel's swelling military power in her immediate neighbourhood. Therefore, US has to recognize Iran's compulsions and neutralize the "assumed" threat perception through the medium of mutual dialogue and consultation, the key to Middle East peace and development, than the use of force or UN economic sanctions: the latter seems to loose ground due to recently inaugurated Iran- Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project by two Presidents of Iran and Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]