Nuclear Talks with Iran
source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113891057
In the past several years, there has been much contest over the Iranian nuclear program and the west has repeatedly rebuked any efforts made by Iran to step into the nuclear age. Now it seems that the previous efforts for Iran to enrich their uranium at home have been unsuccessful and Iran must ship their low-enriched uranium to other nations for further refinement. Several years back there was an article linked from Current regarding new techniques created in Iran using newly-modeled centrifuges which would highly enrich uranium... What happened?! It seems that now they must ship their uranium, which is to be used for medical research, to foreign nations. This is not entirely bad for Iran's stature with the west, the International Atomic Energy Agency monitors the facilities in the nations Iran is shipping their Uranium to, thus legitimizing the Iranian nuclear program.
These steps taken by Iran seem to be nullified by the States and their political figures, who for years have chastised Iran, it's leaders, and its nuclear program. The United States have pushed for threatening sanctions to be placed on Iran by the IAEA and the UN, and it seems they have not lightened up even now. Though the Iranians have been forced to ship their uranium to other facilities, this has placed them in the light of the IAEA inspectors and allowed other nations to see their level of development. The States have not relented in their onslaught of attempted discreditation, but several other nations have stepped up and taken up the slack in the Iranian program, putting many American fears to rest. The latest attempt of the States' has been criticism over a second national facility, this one built in secret. The Iranian defense was the need to have a second facility to fall back on if it came to the West wiping out the primary facility. The States didn't buy it, but several third parties agree that this facility is merely a secondary facility with no hidden agenda, merely a backup facility, built out of legitimate fear of Western reprisal. However, now that Iran must ship away most of their uranium, it is tracked all the way by the IAEA, nothing therefore can be hidden or operated in secret or aggresively - merely an honest attempt at nuclear technology.
There are many questions to be asked and answered in the coming years of the fledgling Iranian Nuclear Program, but for the time being, this development seems to be a positive note in the struggle to compete technologically with the west - and I most certainly do not hint at weaponization!
What are your thoughts on the Iranian Nuclear Program? Have the States been too harsh in their criticisms of Iran over these circumstances? What happened to Iran's new-type centrifuges?
These steps taken by Iran seem to be nullified by the States and their political figures, who for years have chastised Iran, it's leaders, and its nuclear program. The United States have pushed for threatening sanctions to be placed on Iran by the IAEA and the UN, and it seems they have not lightened up even now. Though the Iranians have been forced to ship their uranium to other facilities, this has placed them in the light of the IAEA inspectors and allowed other nations to see their level of development. The States have not relented in their onslaught of attempted discreditation, but several other nations have stepped up and taken up the slack in the Iranian program, putting many American fears to rest. The latest attempt of the States' has been criticism over a second national facility, this one built in secret. The Iranian defense was the need to have a second facility to fall back on if it came to the West wiping out the primary facility. The States didn't buy it, but several third parties agree that this facility is merely a secondary facility with no hidden agenda, merely a backup facility, built out of legitimate fear of Western reprisal. However, now that Iran must ship away most of their uranium, it is tracked all the way by the IAEA, nothing therefore can be hidden or operated in secret or aggresively - merely an honest attempt at nuclear technology.
There are many questions to be asked and answered in the coming years of the fledgling Iranian Nuclear Program, but for the time being, this development seems to be a positive note in the struggle to compete technologically with the west - and I most certainly do not hint at weaponization!
What are your thoughts on the Iranian Nuclear Program? Have the States been too harsh in their criticisms of Iran over these circumstances? What happened to Iran's new-type centrifuges?
