Nuclear Research - which country is allowed and why?

Question

If Iran is being sanctioned for pursuing nuclear research, then what qualifications does a country need to allow them to pursue nuclear research, and will contries with nuclear capabilities will allow other contries free access to there research (or even if they will have to pay them)

Answer 1

Sanctions against Iran are not being sought for them pursuing nuclear research, but for pursuing research that could result in Iran gaining nuclear weapons capability.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is an agreement between five countries that possessed nuclear weapons in 1968, the time the treaty was offered for ratification, and all the countries that did not or do not have nuclear weapons. The five countries that had nuclear weapons at that time were The United States, The Soviet Union, The United Kingdom, France and China. After the Soviet Union dissolved, the Russian Federation took its place. France and China became signatories to the treaty in 1992.

The important terms of the treaty were that none of those five states would transfer nuclear weapons, nuclear explosive devices, or technology that could be used in the manufacture of such to any other country. The countries that did not have nuclear weapons agreed that they would not pursue the development of nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices, but they are allowed to pursue peaceful uses of nuclear.technology, such as power generation.

Iran is a signatory to the NPT. However, they are working to enrich uranium, which can be used in both nuclear reactors and, importantly, nuclear weapons. Enriched uranium is uranium that has a high concentration of the uranium-235 isotope, which occurs only rarely naturally.

Answer 2

Iran is being sanctioned (or rather, is about to be sanctioned, pending the actions of the UN Security council over the next few months) because they agreed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and are now violating it.

In general though, the idea is that no countries that were not already established nuclear powers when the Non-Proliferation Treaty was open to signatures will be allowed to build nuclear weapons. This prevents a massive proliferation of such weapons, which will eventually lead to their use (something everyone wants to avoid).

Answer 3

Basically every country that signed the non-proliferation treaty,as long as is in civilian purpose...Iran is one of the country that signed it.so as long as they are using nuclear energy for civilian purpose they shouldn't be sanctioned...
Read more on http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/WMD/treaty/

Answer 4

to not make statements about wiping countries off the map

Answer 5

put it this way. if you had to trust someone to hold a gun, would you trust someone that threatens to kill??