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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The U.S. Should Do What is Morally Right

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The fundamental issue is if the Islamic Republic of Iran has the moral right to uranium enrichment technology. If Iran indeed possesses this right, then the United States cannot morally intervene in Iran ’s enrichment activities. However, if Iran has no such right, then any nation may stop Iran from pursuing uranium enrichment technology, even if it requires the use of military force, so long as that nation does so for the purpose of safeguarding the lives of citizens of the world.

Iran is a state-sponsor of Islamic Terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas [1]. Therefore, Iran has no right to any technology that could potentially enhance its offensive capability, including nuclear power. Thus, the United States , Israel or any other nation is well within its rights to use military force to prevent Iran ’s enrichment program from progressing further. North Korea is a prime example of how dangerous a nuclear-armed rogue nation is to the civilized world. If Iran acquires uranium enrichment technology to produce lowly-enriched uranium then it will have the infrastructure to easily transition to producing highly-enriched (“weapons-grade”) uranium [2]. Thus, it is perverse and dangerous to claim that no nation can morally prevent Iran , which is a fountainhead for Islamic Totalitarianism, from acquiring uranium enrichment technology. The U.S. should learn from the threat North Korea poses and not allow Iran to go nuclear.

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