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...coveted the Bomb as well. Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, signed by Iran in 1968, the country is legally entitled to build reactors and make enriched uranium fuel as a source of energy, as long as it abides by treaty rules and allows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor what it is doing. Iran has consistently denied that it intends to scale up fuel-grade enriched uranium into the purer weapons-grade component of a bomb. Iranians say they have the same rights as other countries to technology and are just looking out for their long-term energy...
...trouble is, almost no one believes that's all Iran is after. Iran had concealed clandestine efforts to make enriched uranium from IAEA inspectors for two decades, until its secret lab at Natanz was exposed by an exile opposition group in 2002. Iran eventually owned up to the deception, telling the IAEA that since the West had denied Iran reactors for decades, it had to go underground to become self-sufficient in fuel. The revelations led the IAEA to put seals on Iran's test centrifuges while Britain, France and Germany tried to negotiate guarantees that Iran's nuclear program...
...purposes rather than military ones. "There's no place for nuclear weapons in our national security doctrine," Larijani told TIME. He points out that Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa forbidding the use of nuclear weapons. But such claims were undermined again in January when the IAEA reported an administrative link between a uranium-conversion program known as Green Salt and efforts to weaponize missiles that, for the first time, appeared to show an attempt to harness the nuclear program for military purposes...
...Atomic Energy Act, which both the House and Senate must approve by majority votes, because that decades-old law effectively prohibits nuclear aid to India, which detonated an atomic device in 1974 and has refused to submit all its nuclear activities to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). India conducted another nuclear test in 1998 and is now believed to have 50 to 100 atomic weapons in its arsenal...
...nuclear technology, hardware and fuel without any limits being placed on its weapons program - and without adequate safeguards that the American aid won't end up helping expand that weapons program. Under the proposed accord, for example, 14 of India's civilian nuclear facilities would come under IAEA inspections, but eight other nuclear facilities would be classified as military installations and not subject to inspections. Those facilities would be able to continue producing nuclear bombs, and critics charge that uranium the U.S. and other countries could provide under this agreement would enable India to use more of its limited stock...