Should Iran be allowed to get nuclear weapons and why?

Question

This qn is not asked about Israel or the USA because they can be trusted.

Answer 1

Iran seems to persist in enriching uranium despite what you or I or the United Nations will allow it. Iran will make a nuclear bomb. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini wants it. He is the real power in Iran. He is not elected. He will be Supreme Leader for life. Iran is a theocracy. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini avers that Iran has a right to have nuclear weapons. Leaders of the Iranian hard-line regime, believe they have a direct line to God, and they'll do whatever 'divine inspiration' requires them to do. Talking to them is pointless. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reflects the attitude of the religious leaders.

Sanctions may not be enough. But it is worth the effort. Since Natanz, the nuclear research facility is underground, simply a massive EMP explosion in the atmosphere to knock out all electronics would not be sufficient.

Russia has repeatedly urged Iran to stop enriching uranium. Russis said it "regrets" Iran's decision not to halt uranium enrichment by the deadline. Some time ago Russia offered to sell Iran its enriched uranium to use in the power plant and has offered to help Iran construct a "light water" facility. Instead Iran opted to construct a "heavy water" facility which was recently opened at Arak. The underground research facility at Natanz

Mohammad Nabi Rudaki stated that 164 centrifuge sets are now enriching uranium up to 4.5 percent grade to provide nuclear fuel for industrial and power plant needs and that Iran will soon enrich uranium to the grade of 9 percent in 3000 centrifuge sets.

China has far more trade with the US than with Iran and although it competes with the US for oil, it receives roughly one quarter of OPEC oil.

If the Islamic leaders were a little less apocalyptic, perhaps a diplomatic solution might be found. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei wants to be the Shiite Caliph from Iran through Iraq to Lebanon. He needs to shift the balance of power in his favor.

The UN Security Council has reviewed the report from the Director General of the IAEA regarding whether Iran has established full and sustained suspension of all uranium enrichment and research activities. However, the UNSC will wait to consider possible actions until after the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, meets with Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, sometime in the middle of next week to seek a negotiated solution to the standoff over Tehran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.

The UNSC may take measures under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations to persuade Iran to comply with Resolution 1696 and the requirements of the IAEA. The UNSC will use diplomatic and economic sanctions including a ban on missile and nuclear technology to Tehran; international refusal to grant entry visas to those involved in Iran’s nuclear program and a freeze of their assets as well as a ban on investment in the country. Don't count on Russia and China to block that sanction vote. But if they do, there are other alternatives

U.S. Central Command is updating a target list for Iran. Retired Gen. McInerney advocates using B-2 stealth bombers, cruise missiles and jet fighters to conduct a one- or two-day bombing campaign to take out Iran's air defenses, military facilities and about 40 nuclear targets, which includes a Russian-built reactor and an enrichment plant at Bushehr. Israel has drafted plans for air strikes using long-range versions of the F-15 and F-16 fighters.

On August 22 Ali Larijani, hand delivered Iran's 21-page response to UNSC 1696 the package of incentives to dissuage Iran from uranium enrichment. Iran's top nuclear negotiator said that Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations" over its disputed nuclear program but did not say that it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment — the West's key demand. The West is still offering many economic incentives.

On August 19, Iran launched a large-scale area, sea and ground exercise he maneuver, the Blow of Zolfaghar (the sword used by Imam Ali), which involved 12 divisions, army Chinook helicopters, unmanned planes, parachutists, electronic war units and special forces. Iran's state-run television reported that the new anti-aircraft system was tested "to make Iranian air space unsafe for our enemies."

On Sunday, August 20, in the Kashan desert about 250 kilometers southeast of the capital of Tehran, Iran tested the Saegheh missile which has a range of between 80 to 250 kilometers. Saegheh means lightning in Farsi. (The language of Iran is not Arabic and Iranians are not Arabs.)
Iran's arsenal also contains the Shahab-3 missile, which means "shooting star" in Farsi, and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. It has a range of more than 2,000 kilometers and can reach Israel and US forces in the Middle East.

Iran's military test-fired a series of missiles during large-scale war games in the Persian Gulf in March and April, including a missile it claimed was not detectable by radar that can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously.

On August 23, 2006 an article about Iran's reply to the incentives proposal, that was posted on the Iranian Foreign Ministry-affiliated website , implied that Iran's nuclear technology had already reached the point of no return: "...

The following are excerpts from the Al-Borz report:

"It is expected that the first anniversary of the forming of the ninth government will be the date of the Ahmadinejad government's 'nuclear birth.'

"... Together with [the celebration of] the anniversary of the forming of the ninth cabinet, the president of the country [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] will hold his third press conference... where he will answer questions from journalists from Iran and from abroad.

"In addition to detailing the activities of the government at the end of [its first] year, the head of the government [i.e. Ahmadinejad] will officially present Iran's positions on: economic and cultural matters, the nuclear dossier, the activities of nuclear research centers, and developments in the region."

Iran has been persistent to deter IAEA inspectors on certain properties which had been agreed to under the NPT (nuclear non-proliferation treaty.)

Ali Soltanieh, Iran's permanent representative to the IAEA, denied that Iran had refused UN inspectors' access to its underground nuclear facilities at Natanz in central Iran. Iran needs to enrich uranium as a peaceful, alternative energy source and has the right to do so under the NPT, according to Iranian officials. They have told the IAEA that the traces of enriched uranium came from equipment purchased from another country, which was already contaminated.

Iran does not allow for remote monitoring of the PFEP (Pilot Feul Enrichment Plant). Or monitoring of the PHRC (Physics Research Center). Or monitoring of the P-1 and P-2 centrifuges which it purchased from Pakistan.

Answer 2

Absolutely no nation needs nuclear weapons but as USA, UK, Russia, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, France and possibly North Korea have them it is hypocracy of the highest order to state Iran cannot have them. To stop Iran gaining them we must first all commit to unilateraly disarm ourselves of our nuclear deterants so to take the morally unambiguous high road. Anyway, whats so bad about Iran? They are a fascist society led by the dogma of one religion and actively works to spread their own ideology and eliminate other dogmatic ideas, doesnt sound to diferent to the United States to me! And anyway, Iran wasn't always like it is now, it was a secular democracy until the mid 1950's when a US and UK financed coup de ta took place because the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Prime Minister won his election with plans to nationalise the Persian oil company which is now called BP. Amazing how Democracy can be so easily disregarded when the people don't do what the US want them to, Much the same happened in Palestine.

Answer 3

Iran keeps insisting it desires to do away with Israel and could no longer step back from that fact. Iran is at the back of the insurgency in Iraq, Afganistan, so it does not make for a large resume. i do no longer understand with the complication human beings have with the U. S. having nukes. the U. S. has the duty to guard it somewhat is allies, for the reason that there are apparently no different worldwide places prepared to fill the roll, which I easily have a situation with. Japan became a fanatical society which might have fought right down to the final lady and new child, so the two way those lives could have been lost. might you somewhat see Russia with the capabiltiy of the U. S. militia. Russia and China killed extra human beings than the U. S. ever will and that they did no longer use nukes.

Answer 4

Definitely no. They insist this is not their intention, that they only seek nuclear energy which, for a country that's awash with oil and gas doesn't make a lot of sense.They have been offered assistance if their only aim is energy but, they have declined, because this would involve monitoring. A world with Iran as a nuclear power would be a scary place. It's not the people who run Iran it is religious fundamentalists whose agenda is unknown. They've certainly not put their efforts into improving the lot of their people. The very fact that they are against any moderates making headway politically says a lot. So, in short, the answer is no.

Answer 5

As far as I am concerned no country should be allow to get nuclear weapons...We don't want another Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
But as long as some countries have them,why not allow Iran to have them...And don't tell me that US and Israel can be trusted ...Plssss,let's not forget who is the only country in the world who used the atomic bomb...Let's not forget who attacked Iraq for no reason.Let's not forget who killed 1000 people in Lebanon for two soldiers they don't seem to care much about right now...Thinking about what Iran never did(never attacked a country) I say that we can trust them more...
So as long as we have nuclear weapons,with what right do we ask to Iran not to have them?

Answer 6

Some of the responses to this question show a real lack of an understanding of evil. Evil people seek to impose their ideas and power onto others by whatever means they can. It is not the fact that the U.S. and other countries have nukes that inspires dictators to seek them. It is that fact that these are the most powerful weapons available that causes them to seek them. Even if we did not have nukes, the tyrants of the world would still seek after them. It is not for defense that they want them; it is so that they can intimidate their neighbors.

Should Iran be allowed to get nukes? Absolutely not! Iran trains, supports, and supplies terrorist. If Iran gets nukes, we have no assurance that they won't use them or give them to their terrorist allies. The Soviet Union really was not so much of a threat in this respect because they feared death. Its people did not want to die. However, Iran teaches its people to glory in death. It teaches them that it is a great thing to die while fighting against the infidels. Therefore, we can't be sure that mutually assured destruction (MAD) will scare them the way it scared the USSR.

Answer 7

Firstly, neither Iran nor any other nation needs approval from anyone to protect and defend its territory. History tells us that there are some nations that are outright pirates/plunderers with machiavellian ideologies and need to be kept in check. Iran and any other nation has the right to self-defense. Finally, who allowed the USA, Russia and Israel (all who will not comply with signed or refused to sign UN's treaty on WMD) to get nuclear weapons?

Answer 8

I think Iran has the right to defend itself from the world and mostly Israel ,U.S. and U.K. zionist hook nosed pirate goons as you can see in Lebanons case Israel can get away with murdering woman and children ,bombing freakin power stations for no reason and the media turns a blind eye towards Lebanons pain only to show clips on tv of poor poor Israeli cars on fire.I say more weapons power to Iran and Hezbollah freedom fighters.

Answer 9

Who decides? Thats what pissing me off.
Should Israel have nuclear weapons? What gives one country the right to have them and another none? IF one country can have it then so can everyone else otherwise we scrap the whole damn thing
Cant go around pointing fingers saying you can and you cant. Thats a joke and its pissing people off and causing more havoc Pakistan has nuclear weapons and so does India and they dont like each other and live next door why isnt anyone bothering them. Why isnt anyone bothering Putin? Oh i see probably bcs he would say Go **** yourself

Answer 10

Why is this question never asked about Israel? Or the USA, which is still the only country to ever have dropped a nuclear bomb on another country.

Answer 11

Should we allow a country that has threatened to annihilate both Israel and the U.S have nuclear weapons? Hmmmmm. I'd say no.