Should Iran be allowed to enrich uranium?
By taiguy
@taiguy (478)
United States
May 24, 2007 11:16am CST
Iran has been more than persistent in it's project to domestically enrich uranium to a level suitable for a nuclear plant. The U.S. is worried that Iran may use the same process to enrich the uranium to a much higher level suitable for atomic bombs.
Although Iran is pretty far away technologically from achieving either goal; one can surmass what a state sponsor of terrorism could achieve by proliferating nuclear material. At the same time, according to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, Iran has a legal right to domestically enrich uranium on there own land.
What do you think? Does Iran serve as a threat large enough to deny them a percieved international right? If not, what is your recommendation on how to handle the rogue regime?
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5 responses
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
24 May 07
Bush is not up for election, so that blows your theory.
@buri2_jaemon (619)
• Indonesia
25 May 07
i think it's every right of every nation to have nuclear as long as the purpose is for peace, if we argue that iran doesn't have right to have nuclear, but ever we argue that why israel can have nuclear??????just because iran is moslem country??? or israel is jew????i think it's doen't fair..
@banta78 (4326)
• India
24 May 07
I feel all the concerned parties be it Iran or the US or the IAEA or EU need to be open to dialogue and flexible in their approach as rigid stances doesn't help anyone. I feel only this way diplomatic breakthrough could be achieved so that west's suspicions of Iran's nuclear programme could be erased if Iran allows international inspectors to inspect it's nuclear facilities. And Iran be allowed to have civilian nuclear programme that would allow to use it for electricity to meet it's energy needs.
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
24 May 07
No, I don't think they should be allowed to enrich uranium.
More importantly though, is the fact that their neighbors are not crazy about the idea either.
Iran has been told repeatedly to stop interfering in the politics of the other countries, and the idea that Iran wants these plants for domestic use is wrong, because they have already been talking about how having nuclear capabilities would make them a world power.
Iran is a loose cannon and the thought of a nuclear Iran makes a lot of countries nervous, not just the US.
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@taiguy (478)
• United States
24 May 07
I think Iran will soon find that their usual bag of tricks will not work as well as it used to. I believe the first case of this is when they tried to imitate the 2004 kidnapping of british soldiers in iraqi waters and found it not as "accepted" by the international community as the previous attempt.
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
12 Sep 07
This is an old discussion I dragged out of mothballs because I tripped over it randomly and it still is a very relevent question, and besides, ya'll know me, I like to run my mouth, lol.
Anyway, people tend to generalize whendiscussing this....shoiuld "iran" be allowed to enrich uranium. The more proper question is, should the minority fundimental islamic government of iran be allowed to enrich uranium. To that I would answer with an emphatic and resounding NO. This source of power in the hands of people who DO NOT desire the reducing of an entire nation in to a glass parking lot or the irradication of entire populations of any religion not of their twisted view of it, is perfectly acceptable. However, I FIRMLY believe that the population of Iran does not desire to see such things, the country, when turned over to its peacefull population and out of the hands of radicals, should by all means allowed access to this technology.
