- 22 Jan 2006, 22:26
#5478
We have noticed with alarm the sheer amount of coverage Irans nuclear programme has been receiving this past month, and in particular this week. BBCs documentary pertaining to the Iran issue has been aired several times this weekend. Whether the BBC is assisting to desensitize the public towards potnetial military action, or whether it is trying to make the public aware of what is going on so as to avert military action, will only be known with the passage of time.
The main debate is now that iran can enrich Uranium, will it enrich it solely for energy usage like it maintains it will or will if enrich it further to develop nuclear weapons? The US and its allies say that Iran is making bombs. Their justification? When inspectors performed a cotton swab test, they found Uranium enriched to percentages way higher than that used for normal energy usage. Iran maintains that the uranium on the swabs were those of samples which they had taken from the Pakistanis, from whom the whole setup for a nuclear plant was bought on the black market.
The pakistanis arent willing to co-operate by letting in inspectors into their nuclear programmes, and the inspectors cant be sure where the uranium samples they collected are from.
The Amercians, the British, Russians, Indians, Pakistanis, Israelis, and god knows whom else have active nuclear programmes, and have produced and tested nuclear weapons. Is it right for the UN to ask Iran to stop their uranium enrichment programme for energy? And it is so wrong to turn the other eye, as happend with Israel, India and pakistan when they created their nuclear weapons? Is this a genuine move to make the world a 'SAFER" place, or is it the US's ploy to be able to militarily act against Iran, just as they did with Afghanistan and Iraq?
If they decide to use Arms, what can we, as normal people do to prevent such an occurence? Thoughts? Ideas anyone?
The main debate is now that iran can enrich Uranium, will it enrich it solely for energy usage like it maintains it will or will if enrich it further to develop nuclear weapons? The US and its allies say that Iran is making bombs. Their justification? When inspectors performed a cotton swab test, they found Uranium enriched to percentages way higher than that used for normal energy usage. Iran maintains that the uranium on the swabs were those of samples which they had taken from the Pakistanis, from whom the whole setup for a nuclear plant was bought on the black market.
The pakistanis arent willing to co-operate by letting in inspectors into their nuclear programmes, and the inspectors cant be sure where the uranium samples they collected are from.
The Amercians, the British, Russians, Indians, Pakistanis, Israelis, and god knows whom else have active nuclear programmes, and have produced and tested nuclear weapons. Is it right for the UN to ask Iran to stop their uranium enrichment programme for energy? And it is so wrong to turn the other eye, as happend with Israel, India and pakistan when they created their nuclear weapons? Is this a genuine move to make the world a 'SAFER" place, or is it the US's ploy to be able to militarily act against Iran, just as they did with Afghanistan and Iraq?
If they decide to use Arms, what can we, as normal people do to prevent such an occurence? Thoughts? Ideas anyone?