Iran's uranium enrichment, still a 'train on a one-way track' - Instablogs
Iran's uranium enrichment, still a 'train on a one-way track'
Pankaj , Shimla: Mar 26 2007
Made Popular Mar 26 2007

Iran's uranium enrichment, still a 'train on a one-way track'With respect to Iran’s nuclear program good news is quite scarce as it is with the middle-east peace process. The spineless UN for the first time showed its commitment to a diplomatic course to stop Iran’s nuclear program but the fresh sanctions on Iran are inconspicuous.

The U.N. Security Council’s five major powers and Germany agreed in principle to ban all Iranian arms exports and freeze the financial assets of 28 Iranian officials and institutions, including several commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Let me go right to the crux of the question. The world must know that even the harshest political and economic sanctions are far too weak to coerce the Iranian nation to retreat from their legal and legitimate demands.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad defied the UN Security Council resolution by saying -

Adding the new sanctions will not halt Iran’s peaceful nuclear program even for a second.

Iran’s defiance reflects its conviction that it is in a strong enough strategic juncture to ignore outside pressure. So long as its hard-line leaders are convinced that the West has no military option, they see little reason to freeze their nuclear enrichment and conversion.

The UN sanctions looks like another ‘tick’ in the ticking time bomb known as Iran that arises mostly from Iran’s ‘ambiguous stance’. As it moves closer to confrontation with the international community, rather than seeking to avoid a clash, Iran becomes even more aggressive in its rhetoric and its actions, only to make the world puzzle when this ticking time bomb will go off.

This puzzle gives rise to two blunt questions

1) What difference does the regime’s character make as it travels down the road to a nuclear-armed Iran?
2) And how is the international community prepared to handle the Iranian regime, given its nature, capability, and intent to acquire the bomb?

A tough report on Iran may have stiffened UN resolve to bring Iranian nuclear enrichment but Tehran’s nuclear ambition is still a train on a one-way track that refuses to slow down.

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Citing the endless problems in the middle east there seems no way out soon or perhaps never, there is no point in view where this mounting rage will halt.

For the US backed UN, sanction is the only way out to tackle the one tracked ploy of Iran - it hasn’t worked though, and isn’t even likely if seen from a broader prospective. Iran refuses to calm down its ’nuke’ process and the Westerners lay jinxed in the peril.

The situation is going out of hand and if mishandling of the state persists, the situation could craft into another military confrontation.
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R.M.Paulraj
Bangalore, India
Atom bomb technology, though a closely guarded secret, is more than sixty years old. It is quite a long period in terms of technological possibilities. It cann’t be expected to remain ’undiscoverable’ by others for ever. The world has come a long way after the first atomic test in the Pacific, and has moved far ahead in every field of development. Nuclear bomb manufacturing would have become a cottage industry by now, but for the huge investments needed to set up the facilities.
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Ashutosh
Chandigarh, India
The problem of the middle east are deep and it should take into account the demographic conditions of the area.
Iraq is under US control and not a friend of Iran certainly.
Saudis are hands and gloves with US. Israel is not only a threat but also a friend of US Iran needs something to safeguard his interests and developing a nuclear weapon is one of those things.
But wt I fear is that it will get into the hands of terrorists and then we all are going to hate Iran.
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Amnedra
Noida, India
The world at large has started to view the US as a hegemonic monster trying to influence the world to satiate its burgeoning hunger for energy and hold onto its superpower status. Hence, the national ego (of all countries including US) and the economic needs (of all countries including US) are at the center of the conflict, over-riding the rationality of the nations involved in the conflict. Though America’s intention– to halt a radical Islamic nation like Iran, which has made no bones about wiping out Israel off the world’s map (this, at a time when it has no nuclear power and is economically weak nation without much support from either west or even its Arab neighbors)– from acquiring nuclear weapons (its hard to believe that a country like Iran wouldn’t be tempted to make nuclear weapons once it has all the facility and technology at its disposal) is good, the method it (US) has followed has irked even its erstwhile allies. The US should give up its haughty approach in international politics and understand that the world has ceased to be the subservient follower of its whims.

Globalization has catapulted many countries into economic power transforming them into its alter ego. Looking down upon the aspirants struggling to enter the nuclear league and using sanctions and war threats to deter them from climbing up the ladder will only make the world more suspicious and further intensify the hatred against its policy.

If-you-spit-at-us-we-will-vomit-on-you approach is not going to help US in this case. The US must accept the fact that it is interfering with Iran’s internal matter and hence negotiate accordingly, so as not to add to the frustration of the country.
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