I’m just wondering if Iran has explicitly said they will try to construct nuclear weapons from the enriched uranium they are/will use in their nuclear facilities? I was always under the impression that they had said they want to build power plants, though the West wants them to stop due to a lack of trust.
I’m not asking if power stations are just a guise for a nuclear weapons program. I’m asking if they have flat out said they will build nuclear weapons.
Recently, much of the coverage I’ve seen on the news has said nothing/little about power plants, and one politician (forgot who) the other day kept referring to what’s happening as “Iran’s nuclear weapons program.”
Many suspect that they intend to develop nuclear weapons, but much can also suggest that their only intent is to build power plants
Iran’s ambition to build nuclear power plants aren’t something that they decided after the revolution. I believe that Iran had a nuclear cooperation with USA in the 1970’s
Iran have never said that they intent to develop nuclear weapons, but who knows
It goes into detail about Iran’s point of view, and why they think they need nuclear power. It also covers a lot of the other issues, basically covering everything from when the nuke program started back in the 50’s up until the present day. Unlike most of the other stuff you read these days, this article seems to be reasonably fair on presenting both sides without politicizing the issues.
Just out of curiosity, has any country ever claimed that it was producing nukes just to make bombs, or has it always been either completely secret or hidden under the veil of nuclear power plants until the first bomb actually works?
If the Iranian government notices that the USA leaves N. Korea alone, and also leaves Pakistan alone (even though Bin Laden probably was hiding out there,) and the main reason is the nuclear weapons owned by those countries… what should Iran think?
“We gots to get us summa THOSE!!!”
What they actually SAY will be quite different, of course.
the Pakistan Government has problems with some of its population and some of its Intelligence Service.
Actually the USA has historically been friendly with Pakistan
India was historically friendly with the USSR because the USSR was not friendly with the Chinese, and India was nervous of the Chinese because they got invaded by them. Since Pakistan was not friendly with India, it kind of lumped them with the USA.
It is playground allegiences, but rather handy, as Pakistan is not the stablest of regimes.
Iran signed the Non Proliferation Treaty and repeatedly say they don’t want the bomb
No…of course they haven’t. Afaik NO country who was developing nuclear weapons in secret shouted this fact to the world. A lot of countries (like Israel) in fact tryin to keep you guessing even after they have supposedly developed the things.
Why I’m skeptical of the claim is because Russia has offered to provide Iran with all the nuclear fuel they need if indeed they only want it for peaceful generation of power. In fact, thats the key to the proposal by the west toward Iran…they can STILL have their nuclear power…they just can’t process their own fuel, nor have plants that could be dual use. Iran has refused this offer, despite having some pretty tempting goodies attached to it by the west.