Is it justifiable to pressurize Iran on nuclear issues keeping in view activitie of Pakistan,India and Israel?
365035
Considered That INDIA , PAKISTAN , and ISRAEL Are NOT ENEMIES Of The US\n\n(Israel Is A STRONG US Allie And India And Pakistan Are On The List)\n\nThen Id Say YES It IS Justified
336752
Israel is a lot less likely to be firing off nuclear weapons at their enemy-of-the-week than Iran is.  But who has the right to develope them and who doesn't - I don't know.   The US and the UN want to be the Police of the World, and that seems to cause more problems than it solves.
532696
It should not be allowed nuclear capabilities, and we should all endever to prevent this occurance, because it is not within the intrests of the Western world. I recognise the arguement that Iran is as unstable or backward as the Western press portray it to be, however a neuclear Iranian would enable it to dictate policy in the region to a much larger degree, look at North Korea for example. The West needs a weaker Iran to exploit its natural resources, we should not be apologetic about this fact, we should however be careful how we go about it. As previous events have shown, badly planned interferance is far worse than isolationism.
272914
Unlike North Korea (who seems to use their nuclear sabre-rattling every decade or so to extort financial aid from the UN) I am convinced that a nuclear-armed Iran would most certainly detonate a payload somewhere. A move against Israel is very believeable. Iran has shown an attitude of support for islamo-fascist terrorism also. It is not inconceivable for an Iranian produced nuke to end up in a suitcase in say, Times Square.\n\nIf you are a rational citizen of the world and you are not concerned about this issue, you are either very dumb or asleep.
395076
Iran signed the NPT, (Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty) by signing that they agreed to abstain from seeking nuclear weapons.  They are currently in violation of international law.  The US, the UK, Israel, India, France, China and Pakistan did not sign the NPT.  Iran has publicly declared that Israel should not be allowed to exist.  Is that a red flag that Iran should be closely watched in their nuclear ambitions?
460003
Nuclear power is not the issue.  Nuclear bombs are the issue. The president of Iran has said he wants to wipe out Israel, which is fine with me, but I doubt if Israel is going to just sit there and let itself be wiped out.  You can bet that Israel has plans to launch a strike on Iran and you can bet the US has a plan drawn up to invade, which is fine also. But I think that if the US launches an attack it should not necessarily be the same way as in Iraq with the goal of regime change.  The US should simply blow up all Iran's nuclear facilities and leave them totally disintegrated with absolutely nothing left but a big hole in the ground; if this means using nuclear weapons then fine.  Just blow the place up and leave it at that, and let the Iranians deal with the mess.  If they try to rebuild it, blow it up again, and so on forever.  Muslims are a very dangerous threat to mankind and should not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, because they will come up with all this Allah jihad holy bullshit as justification to use it, which is all a crock of baloney anyway.
244806
If that were the case does it give India, Pakistan, Isreal and all the other nuclear powers the right to attack us because we have nuclear weapons - I think not.\n\nAnd who are we to dictate to other countries whether they should have nuclear weapons or not.  We expect the world to accept that it's OK for us to have weapons but then have the hypocricy to condemn other countries who acquire or want to acquire them.\n\nTo my mind it would be much better if no-one had them.
87111
India already has nuclear bombs, as does Pakistan.\n\nWhether this is "allowed" is purely academic.
383563
No, Israel is already the world's scapegoat for problems it has had little part in creating.\n\nWhat is necessary is a UN resolution requiring the intervention of an International police force to go in and dismantle any and all nuclear programs in Iran.  Iran should be informed that any attempt by Iranians or anyone else to interfere will be responded to militarily to the extent that is necessary.  That would leave the going to war to be their decision.  Hopefully,  they would back down.\n\nIran, an Islamic dictatorship by definition unstable and unreliable, has no right to nuclear power nor to the possession of nuclear fuel. Those who discovered and developed it would never have wished it extended to Iran.\n\nThe problem here is that the UN generally produces resolutions that are irresponsible, unjust, and politically motivated.  They tend to ignore the reality of every international situation.  It simply is an organization that is counterproductive to world peace. Of course fear of annihilation might wake up even the dimmest and most self-interested minds on the face of the earth, and many of them are apparently found in the UN.\n\nThe U.S. is only over its limit because it cannot find the political will to do what is necessary while that is still possible.\n\nThe same situation existed in the six years previous to WWII.\n\nThen the free world waited too long to react to the undeniable intentions of Hitler. As a result we counted the dead not in hundreds but in the tens of millions!  Will it wait too long again?
1022988
I think no country should do this.But as long as there are several countries who are allowed to use nuclear energy,Iran has also every right to.
420999
Well, North Korea or Iran are the ones that have announced that they have nukes. Unless something flares up between Pakistan and India, I think North Korea or Iran will fire first. Of course, to quote something I read in the newspaper, whoever launches will be turned into a "skating rink" (nuclear blasts turn dirt/sand into glass).
545650
The easiest way to achieve support is to incite anger hatred.  The government in Iran oppresses it's own people, so if it weren't for them brainwashing their population into believing Israel is the ultimate threat, their power might be questioned.  Only by maintaining the population's focus on hating Israel and the West can Iran prevent the population from confronting their real problems at home.
625223
USA is keeping Iran under pressure and giving signal to other Middle Eastern and Arab countries not to indulge terrorism. This way, interest of USA is protected by trying to suppress terrorism and controll of the oil price. At the same time, USA will not expect to see the rise of another nuclear power state in the Middle Eastern region especially Iran who has long dispute history with the USA and Israil. In my mind, unless unavoidable circumstances, USA will not go to War as they have found recent experinces from Iraq War.
644008
In my view,Iran is as entitled to develop a nuclear program just as much as anybody else,regardless of whether it's for energy or military use.Iran has a hostile neighbour that is bristling with nuclear weapons,so who can blame them if they're trying to develop an effective defence system.Israel is a country which is founded and run according to religious fundamentalism and in my view they are the most likely to be the protagonists for the next nuclear war but nobody is prepared to try to disarm them or halt any nuclear research and development.I am from the czech Republic by the way.
402581
It shouldn't be a first option.  The ideal situation would be an internal revolution in Iran, I can't imagine that the average Iranian is terribly happy with Ahmadinejad and Khamenei though the Iranian police state has so far been able to keep them in power.  I think that diplomatic options need to be exhausted before military options are exercised, but it is up to Iran how far this goes.  If they allow the IAEA in to monitor and verify their claim that they are trying to generate Nuclear power for civilian purposes (which all current evidence indicates is not the case) then the world will probably let them do so, however if Iran begins deploying and/or exporting Nuclear Weapons they will have to be stopped, and it would be imprudent to take any option off the table before their intentions are known.
409401
Iran has every right to enrich uranium for energy purposes because it is a member of the N-NPT (Nuclear non-perliferation Treaty). This treaty guarantees this right. \n\nIronically, Bush told India, who has refused to sign the N-NPT, they could enrich uranium. This creates a very complicated dilema.\n\nAdditionally, if you examine Iran's history, Iran has no history of aggression but rather of defense. Iran has also held to all regulations of the NPT to include full access to all uranium enrichment sites to all U.N. inspectors. \n\nThere is no evidence to support restricting Iran's right to enrich uranium in order to obtain nuclear energy. Also, keep in mind, Israel has nuclear weapons.
678163
well fo sure ........nobody knows. but the most likely reason can be to gain international respect vis-a-vis united states as it happened in the case of india . also to have a dominating position in the midle east given its complex geopolitical situation and also have an upper hand with respect to israel. dont forget israel also has nuclear weapons but nobody is concerned about that.........