Sunday, February 16, 2014

A deal on Iran's nuclear programme is within reach but only if there is political will

The international community and the Islam republic of Iran will meet next week to try to finalize the deal called “agreed last November“ within the next six months .The deal called for a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program that has been the speculation and controversy in international relations for nearly three to four decades now. Iran deputy foreign minister Mr. Javad argued that it has been a long way that Iran wanted to develop a peaceful nuclear program only to have met America’s intransigence .I found it surprising in this news article that it mentions that it was the U.S that supplied Iran with the Tehran research reactor called “TRP” in 1967, under President Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Programme. The backup of the story is ironic in many aspects, the reactor initially was supplied to Iran with the intention of reaching up to 20,000 megawatts electricity but following the Islamic revolution the western countries backed down on the agreement.
Consequently Iran is claiming in this article that it is the western powers especially America that forced Iran to gather its scientific intellectuals to work out a solution out of the blockade imposed by America. Thus, Iran reject the fault on the west by recalling the snobbishness of the west to deny Iran of its rights to pursue a peaceful nuclear program. Recalling the 10% investment that Iran made in the French Eurodic Project that should provide Iran with some enriched uranium but due to American opposition the investment was frozen. The banned according to Mr. Javad had caused Iran to go around “begging”, adding that “we are not a country that begs. We will never beg”. He also stated that the advancement made by Iran and the deviation of course of the initial project was simply a by-product of the west policy of depriving a nation of access to modern technology for peaceful ends.

This article is just one among many of the correlates on the Iran issue, off course it highlights Iran’s position on the issue but it also show how the miscalculations of America had deviated a peaceful program to a far more advanced technology than is needed in such circumstances. But again this is just the standpoint of one party among many other parties which account for the advancement of the peace Talks. Anyway we cannot give complete trust to these information provided by Mr. Javad as we cannot give credits to the American administration interpretation on this matter. From my own point of view, only a compromise among the negotiating parties largely based on Iran and the U.S would prove fruitful and probably relax the atmosphere between the U.S and Iran. We are most probably going to witness more shuttle diplomacy and negotiations before the parts  engaged find a comprise. I would say that the six months plan is bold and leave me skeptical to whether both parties will abide to the general interest of world peace and let aside their narrow interest.


 Abdoul Siddo.

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