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They know damn well that they are faced with the prospect of annihilation. They welcome it. The Ayatollah has said that if it takes the death of Iran to wipe out Israel, that's a good trade. Ahmadinejad has said that he'd be ok with seeing half of Iran destroyed to see Israel destroed. Who am I to stake my bet on the fact that these idiots mihgt be lying? You can make the assumption, I'd rather not.
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Saying those things and meaning them when annihilation is facing you are two different things. Look at the rhetoric of Mao before China acquired nuclear weapons (where he actually tried to get the Soviets and the US in a nuclear exchange) and after. China remains undestroyed.
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Syria and Egypt do not have nukes, and they are not as far as Iran in the development process. Do you suggest the Iranians will wait until they have their own weapons? Because otherwise, implicating someone else sounds pretty futile, especially when taking note of how successful Israel's intelligence services have been to date. Not to mention that letting RG or Hizballah "sneak it in the backdoor" as you suggest ultimately take the trigger out of the hands of the Iranian leadership, which I'm sure they wouldn't be too happy about. They were not happy about Hizballah pulling the trigger on Israel in 2006 on their own accord either.
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Syria and Egypt are probably working on related technologies, and if Pakistan collapses then they could try to pass it off as a Pakistani nuke that happened to find its way into the wrong hands.
And the reason I suggested using the Revolutionary Guards is that they are a branch of the Iranian government that is also firmly connected to Hezbollah (and so can use those connections to assist with the nuke). Therefore they wouldn't have to start to move the nuke until they were ready for the attack.