Iran Nuclear Facilities
Will and Michael
Iran invites several countries from the European Union to see their nuclear facilities, although America, Israel and France were not invited to this. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast claims that the nuclear material is for power and not for bombs. The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran freeze uranium enrichment, something that can produce both fuel and material for making warheads. But Iranian negotiators ruled out discussing such demands. Iran invites Russia, China, Egypt, part of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency and Cuba. Russia and especially China still maintain commercial ties with Iran.
"It's a clever ploy, but it's not a substitute for Iran's responsibilities to the (International Atomic Energy Agency) IAEA," Mr. Crowley the U.S State Department spokesman told the New York Times. The facility’s are already subject to inspections by the IAEA. But Iran has invited diplomats, not nuclear scientists or weapons experts. The diplomats are most likely not to be able to answer if Iran is trying to building nuclear weapons.
Iran said that they hope to start the construction of new enrichment facilities around March 2011. All they would have to do to make weapons grade uranium is to just keep enriching the fuel grade uranium.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12109917)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/middleeast/05tehran.html?ref=iran
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2040654,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/ap_on_re_us/iran_nuclear
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear
Iran has continued to disregard orders by the United Nations to stop their nuclear program. Many people believe Iran wants to create nuclear weapons with the Uranium, but the insist that it is only for peaceful purposes. Being allies with China, Russia, and North Korea makes them a country that is not easy to mess with; also they have many allies in the Middle East. The have the ability to arm themselves with long-range missiles that can allow them to hit target such as Jerusalem and maybe in the future European and State-side targets.
America and Israel are some of the biggest non-supporters of the Iranian nuclear program, and were not invited to the meeting. People are skeptical of this, as a sign that something bad might be going on there that America might not approve of. Without question Iran’s nuclear program is very very controversial.
