Does Iran have the right to have nuclear capacity (for power)?

El Cid

The only country that has used nuclear weapons to destroy cities and murder innocent civilians deliberately is the USofA. No other country in the world has done so, or will do so because they realise the barbarity of the act. Actual actions should override rhetorics. Anyway, when a country says it has no ambitions to develop WMD and even the intelligence services of the technologically most advanced nation in the world says that it is not doing it, why do we insist on making war against it? Will we kill another 600,000 people just to win another election and then say 'Ooops, but never mind, we did bring about regime change'.

BODGE IT AND SCARPER

Not when it threatens Israel and therefore could expect massive nuclear retaliation from them in turn. It has shown repeated human rights issues in it's own boundaries. If it treats it's own people like that, it will not hesitate to nuke us! IMHO.....

Voted 4 Gore&Kerry, McCain 08

No.
That's like allowing a criminal that intends to kill just like Iran intends to demolish Israel the right to own a gun "just for protection"....

xuserx2000

every sovereign nation has the right to split atoms...

But the rest of the world will never allow Iran to have that capability, because there is no guarantee it will not be used for weapons manufacturing....

Also it doesn't help their case that it is for "peaceful purposes", when the leader of the country runs around talking about wiping other countries off the map.

Brad A

Not when they deliberately say that they are going to use it against other countries.

asianman

Does a baby have the right to play with a razor blade?

Iran has repeatedly demonstrated that they have violent tendencies. They train, attack and kill US soldiers in Iraq and vow complete destruction of Israel.

The West should have learned their lesson with the North Korean fiasco and decide that terrorists CANNOT be trusted with nukes for "power".

tom s

yes,,,why not

Blitz

Yes Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear power.

While this is being turned into a nuclear weapons debate...

How can the UK and USA have any credibility denouncing Iran for developing a nuclear weapons capability when they casually turn a blind eye to Isreal having a nuclear weapons capability also in contravention of international law?

You can't have it both ways or those you seek to influence will just strengthen their defiance of you, which is precicely what is happening.

Cookie Monster

Not when they use it to threaten and bully others.

CLIVE H

Iran has made it perfectly clear that it intends to wipe Israel off the map.

This being so, then it follows that civilized nations such as the USA and UK/EU etc are going to join together to try to persuade Iran to stop it's nuke industry.

Iran and the USA are already in talks, but nothing has come of these talks yet.

Meanwhile UK-PM Brown is in Israel and has made it clear to the Knesset that he does not approve of Iran and is aware of it's threat to destroy Israel.

Sarkosy, President of France, has already been in Israel. You may not be aware of this historical fact, but after WW2 almost the entire membership of the French Cabinet had been former inmates of Nazi concentration camps.

I hope the message is clear. France is a very close ally and friend of Israel and a very powerful member of NATO and a nuclear power.

France also has very deep connections with Russia and will be able to persuade the Russians to be less friendly towards state such as Iran.

Already the Russians and Chinese are coming closer together to deal with the threat of terrorism.

What I am seeing is a slow motion gathering of the forces of good who will ultimately destroy Iran once and for all. But before anything like that happens, Iran must be given a change to change it's ways, stop nuke research and development and join the civilized world order.

Iran is supplying weapons and such to the insurgents in Iraq and also Afghanistan.

Don't make me laugh - Iran is a barbarian country which speaks with the voice of Adolf Hitler.

GunnyC

Yes for power production if that is what you mean; the problem is the enrichment program they have run in the past and might still be or could restart easily means they would also have weapons grade for use in making nuclear weapons. North Korea also had much the same type program and it was for power production only they said until they tested a numclear bomb.

203

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Iran has as much "right" as any other.

... who exactly are the self appointed judges anyway?

Einstein was a LIBERAL.

If you think USA does or doesn't, then that is the same answer to Iran.

bendover

Once they stop threatening to wipe countries off the map. Then maybe.

Clive

The arrogance of the US, Israel and other states in dictating the behaviour of other countries would be laughable if it were not so serious. The US rides rough shod over human rights, international law and other countries' sovereignty, selectively deciding which UN resolutions are valid (242?) and grants itself a carte blanche for their enforcement. Iran has every right to nuclear power.

On the associated question of a nuclear weapons capability, Iran has seen her neighbour destroyed by the US on the basis of falsified evidence and quite understandably wishes to protect itself against plunder and destruction by those modern day pirates, the Bush administration and its business associates. Iran could never use its capability for aggression as the retaliation would leave its major cities destroyed.

Pleasant Peter Perkins

Why wouldn't they???

American arrogance is why 911 happened...and it is why something similar will happen again.

BadgerFarm

Does anybody?

wild-man of Borneo

For electricity?
No one is stopping them.
In following the guidelines.
Other than that?
Look in the real world.
At the landmark left behind in Russia.
Glarings under the sun, moon and stars even on cloudy and rainy days too.
Understand what the Liberation of Freedom from world war two was all about.
Luke 9.25,55-56,60
What do you think?

WhiteyBoy

i think iran should develop its nuke program [not going into nuke weapons of course] just for power, because the middle east aren't the cleverest of all people when it comes to technology, so if they do have nuclear power plants, then i think we can expect another chernobyl type disaster, which will destroy their country, without the need of bombs and israel, then we can all point and laugh at them, and say thats what happens when you mess with nuclear power,

it will also allow GSC to make another S.T.A.L.K.E.R game

phil1965

of course,why does america think that they and their allies should only have nuclear power.they are the only ones to set off a nuke in anger

the_libertyman

Let's see..... AMERICA has had the power to TAKE OVER the world for 50 years.... and we have DEMONSTRATED that we will NEVER do that......

IRAN has VOWED to attack Israel and wipe the "pigs" off of the face of the earth......

YEA.... let's talk about their "right" to have nukes......

TERRY C

the truth is that they do have the right to have nuclear power.
they should not have the capability to make nuclear weapons but with one, comes the other.
Countries like britain and america amongst others, fear the repercussions, should iran get nuclear weapons and part of the softener amongst the sanctions, is the offer of help with nuclear power installation, on the understanding that we are allowed to keep a close eye on what is going on.
So, yes, they are entitled to nuclear power for peaceful purposes and there is nothing legally that we can do about it.
However, when have we ever cared what anyone else thinks? we will stop them from having this power whether the rest of the world agrees or not.
The morals of what Iran have in mind or the morals of us and israel is what is the real question. Can Iran prove to us that we can trust them? can we prove that we have the right to stop them? rightly or wrongly? The Iranian president made the decision for everyone when he said that israel needs to be wiped off of the face of the earth. this cannot be allowed to happen whatever your beliefs and so Iran has sounded the death knell for its own nuclear ambitions.

butterknife25

Yes, Iran does have the rights for nukes

1. The EU and the USA, while being all bent out of shape about Iran's program never said a peep about Israel's secret program nor did they "harshly" punish India and Pakistan for theirs. In fact we cancelled the few sanctions we had in place against both nations. If you wish to ban nukes, be consistent about it!

2. Iran want to become a first world nation and has the absolute right to do so. The biggest thing that separates first world from third world nations is the development and enrichment of nukes.

3. Iran has no history of aggression against other countries. In fact they have been victimized by other nations attacking them or causing them trouble- including the UK and USA.

J is Back

every right that america has.

Jimmy Carr

If Israel has nuclear weapons then Iran has every right to have them as well, Iran also has the right to power its homes and industry as it deems necessary including nuclear power. Personally i don't give a crap about the middle east but Israel needs to be made to toe the line the same as any other country. They are looking for any excuse to start ww 3. Great to think isn't it all humankind wiped off the face of the earth for a patch of sand.

openyoureyespeople!

yes like any other country in the world...

Ahwahnee

get real why don't you, the issue isn't about nuclear energy, try listening to Ahmadinejad's rhetorical diatribe, he foams at the mouth spewing hatered towards Israel, 24/7, and you expect people to trust him? lol, fvck that sh1t.
Of with his head I say.

Al Sharkston

No. Iran is a sponsor of terrorism and a tyrannical regime that oppresses it's people.

Eric S

They have the right to power but under International Law they are already violating that right by saying they are going build nukes and how they are going to use them.

Dan

No they are uncivilised oafs who have no respect for anybody or anything except Islam and its rediculous views. And whomever said under International Law they are allowed to is a moron, since Iran signed the NPT meaning they agreed not to develop nuclear weapons, when you have an understanding of the theories and politics of nuclear warfare then answer, otherwise shut up.

Hass

The idea that Iran is somehow more violent than the US is ridiculous. Look at history and see how many wars we've been in and how many nun-raping death squads we've backed in Latin American etc compared to iran. And, while Iran never threatened to nuke anyone (the statement attributed to Ahmadinejad is false) the fact is that the US has not only threatened to use nukes on even a first-strike basis against non-nuclear armed countries in the latest US Nuclear Posture Review, but the US was also complicit in arming Saddam with chemical weapons that resulted in the deaths over 60,000 Iranians.

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