A Novel Explanation for a Nuclear Iran

Anne Bayefksy channels some conservative trepidation over the Obama administration's apparent "acceptance" of a nuclear Iran. She's outdone, however, by David Solway writing at Pajama's Media who unearths the real reason the West has resigned itself to a nuclear Iran:

I am now beginning to suspect that this second alternative may well be the agenda furtively in play. If the Palestinians, the Syrians, and Hezbollah fail to do the job of reducing Israel to inconsequence, Iran remains the default option. I am coming to believe that the actual strategy at work in the official European and Western mind may be to encourage by every covert means, including endlessly protracted and fruitless negotiations, a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran, thus getting rid of the perpetual nuisance which is Israel, appeasing the Arab world, and moving in to rebuild a devastated Iran for eventual, unencumbered oil and trade. The loss in immediate economic advantage would be offset in spades by future economic gains.

This is obviously absurd, but I wonder if this sentiment won't become more prevalent if (or when) the West proves unable to talk or sanction Iran away from its nuclear capability.