Iran...

Iran’s nuclear program is one of the most heated topics in the most volatile regions of the world. While America and the European states tend to belief that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, Iran portrays that its goals are just to create nuclear energy in order to produce electricity so that it does not have to use up its oil fields which it would like to better reserve for export.

Top American officials have said that Iran has gathered enough nuclear energy to create an atom bomb within a year or so but might take it around three more to create a working bomb.  Iran has not only produced enough but has created reserves which have been an important point in making the western powers shake in their seats. This has been added by the push that the Israeli lobby asserts on the US. Israel is under the biggest threat if Iran tends to develop nuclear warheads. This is because of a long history of uncertainty between the states and also the existence of Hezbollah (being backed up financially by Iran).

Just discomfort led the western powers to take immediate steps; they imposed trade sanctions on Iran alienating them from main economic activity within and around the region. Now that Iran has allowed the IEA and the United nations to come and analyze their nuclear plants still the sanctions remain.

Even though the Western powers tend to believe Ahmed Dinejad’s stubborn and adamant nuclear policies to be the main reason in the anarchy in the Mid-eastern center, to me it has the only pivot that balances the blind American domination within the region. After Iraq been invaded by the united forces and the blind “trust” or puppetry by the Saudi royal family has made The US too dominant in the region. Iraq’s stand will balance out this power hold. Sanctions have not only made Iraq self reliant but also economically proven better for them because now they tend to grow from within than relying on the West.

Asad Dalal

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