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Objectively, Iran??€™s claim that it needs nuclear power just doesn’t make sense. The nation is swimming in fossil fuels: Iran is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’s second largest oil producer (it holds ten percent of the world’s proven oil reserves) and the world’s second largest natural gas reserve. Yet Iran has extremely limited deposits of uranium—producing energy via nuclear means makes far less financial sense than producing it by conventional means...
Even putting aside the issue of nonsensical economics, Iran??€™s history clearly demonstrates that it cannot be trusted to develop nuclear technology that can easily be converted to military use. The nation hid development of a gas centrifuge cascade that could be used to make weapons-grade uranium and development of a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for several years...
...latest developments are extremely alarming. Last month, Iran not only flatly rejected an extremely conciliatory European Union offer to provide trade and technology incentives in exchange for abandoning uranium-enrichment work, it resumed uranium conversion, the crucial first step before enrichment. And just a few days ago, Iran??€™s chief nuclear negotiator threatened that it would resume full-scale uranium enrichment if Iran was referred by the IAEA to the Security Council...
While it is important to respect Iran??€™s sovereignty as much as possible, and it does have a right under the Non-proliferation Treaty to use peaceful nuclear power, Iran??€™s history and motives demonstrate that allowing it to inch any closer to its goal would be to risk far too much. Iran??€™s recent rejection of a very reasonable European Union proposal to supply it with nuclear technology as long as the EU retained control over the actual nuclear material confirms that Iran has no intention of stopping with peaceful technology...
...international community cannot allow Iran??€™s intransigence to go unpunished once again. Anything less would be to slide further down a slippery slope indeed...