Should Iran Be Allowed Nuclear Power?

• “Yes”

  

  “Exploiting Natural Resources is the Sovereign Right of Any Nation”

• “Objection”

  

  “Self-Defense From Declared Enemies is Also a Sovereign Right”
  

  Response

Exploiting Natural Resources is the Sovereign Right of Any Nation

Muhammad Sahimi

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Iran has also carried out, to a very significant extent, the provisions of its Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA. After the most intrusive inspections of any member state by the IAEA in its entire history, the Agency has been able to identify only six minor breaches of Iran's SG Agreement, none of which was meant to "further a military purpose," to use the precise language of the SG Agreement. All the issues were resolved satisfactorily, according to the IAEA's February 23, 2008 report.

At the same time, exploiting the natural resources of any nation is the sovereign right of that nation, not one GIVEN to that nation. Iran is entitled to exploit its natural uranium ore for peaceful purposes. Whether doing so is economical for Iran can be decided by Iran and only Iran. As I have explained in an article published by Harvard International Review in its Winter 2005 issue, nuclear energy is completely economical for Iran.

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"Yes" Muhammad Sahimi

• There is No Evidence for a Secret Weaponization Program
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• Exploiting Natural Resources is the Sovereign Right of Any Nation
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• The Correct Question To Be Asked
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• The International Community Must...
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"Yes" Edward Kee

• Nuclear Electricity is Not the Problem
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• Nuclear Weapons are the Problem
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• If Nuclear Power is a Pretext for Nuclear Weapons, Then NO
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"Yes" Kaveh L Afrasiabi PhD

• The United States is Not the World’s Gendarme
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• There is No "Smoking Gun"
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• The Time Has Come to End the Iran “Nuclear Crisis”
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"No" US Army War College

• This Question is Misleading
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• Iran Seeks Technologies and Materials Needed to Make Nuclear Weapons
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• Nuclear Program Correlates With Efforts to Build Missile Systems
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• Neither is This Just a U.S. or Even Merely European or Israeli Concern
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"No" Center for the Advancement of Capitalism

• Iran Cannot be Trusted With Any Power
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• Theocracy is a Mortal Threat
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• The Larger Issue at Stake and the Changes Iran Must Make
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• A Response to Muhammad Sahimi
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"No" David Bukay

• The UN Has Become Part of the Problem
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• A State Can Perform Programs Unless it Endangers Peace
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• The Question of Nuclear Iran
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Most Objections

• Iran Seeks Technologies and Materials Needed to Make Nuclear Weapons
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• Exploiting Natural Resources is the Sovereign Right of Any Nation
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• The United States is Not the World’s Gendarme
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