Iran Nuclear ISsuw

RISHAB MEHTA

The article is based upon the diplomatic scenario surrounding the concerns of the P5 countries (UK, USA, China, Russia, France) about Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. For a period of nearly two decades, the western nations have been suspicious of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It is important to note that all these P5 countries are declared nuclear countries. Obviously its hypocritical of them to state that Iran does not have a right to nuclear technology since they themselves refuse to discard their nuclear weapons. They perceive Iran to be misusing its nuclear technology to make nuclear weapons while the Iranians object that they are only using nuclear technology for useful civilian purposes. While considering from a neutral point of view, it is hard to reason that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iranians are unsafe while weapons anywhere else in the world, including south Asia, are in safe and secure hands. Especially when you look at the proliferation records in history, Pakistan, for instance, has proliferated nuclear technology to both Iran and North Korea, however, there have been no sanctions or embargos or even diplomatic pressure on Pakistan like the ones Iran is facing. This could be due to the bias and support of the United States Of America towards Pakistan for its help in battling terror.
The article narrows down its focus to the resumption of dialogue between Iran and the P5 countries. Iran, while does not hold any objections for the holding of these talks, remain uncommitted about the issue of nuclear weapons enrichment coming up during the discussions. When one does look form the western perspective, it is not hard to align unanimously with that stream of thought. Iran is situated in a perpetually volatile environment in the Middle East, with the threat of a full-blown war against Israel always on the horizon. Thus in such instances, the procurement of a nuclear weapon by Iran or any other Middle Eastern countries for that matter, may totally change the balance of power scenario in the Middle East, leading to unnecessary complications and could even cause a nuclear war. This would not only be disastrous for the Middle East, but the entire planet’s environment would be on the threshold of extinction. It is thus in the interest of every nation to stop Iran from procuring nuclear weapons. Given the above terms, the world countries shouldn’t have a problem with Iran using nuclear technology for civilian purposes (energy). But that very fact is the core issue, as since iran does not allow IAEA inspectors to inspect Iranian nuclear sites for weapons, the suspicions will never cease to exist. Iran must hence allow the talks to be construvtive for world peace.