Should Iran Be Allowed Nuclear Power?

Should Iran Be Allowed Nuclear Power?

"Today, we are a nuclear country and we are talking to others from that position." Those were the words of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, explaining his refusal to suspend his country's uranium enrichment program. While many believe that Iran has a right to develop nuclear power, others, including the Bush administration, fear a parallel nuclear weapons program. How should the international community react to Iran’s burgeoning atomic ambitions?

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Kaveh L Afrasiabi PhD

The United States is Not the World’s Gendarme

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

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The United States is not the world’s gendarme to act as the self-declared gate-keeper as to who should or should not be allowed to have nuclear power and, yet, unfortunately this is precisely how the US has behaved toward Iran, by insisting that it should forfeit its “inalienable rights” under the articles of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that permit Iran’s possession of a peaceful nuclear fuel cycle,  

From the prism of international law, however, the legal justification for this unreasonable request by the US and some European governments is simply lacking,(1) no wonder a bulk of the international community that includes the 118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement has supported Iran’s nuclear rights. Sadly, the issue of Iran’s nuclear program has been politicized by Washington and Tel Aviv and the avalanche of misperceptions often prevent an objective scrutiny of facts from fictions regarding Iran.(2)

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