Nuclear Weapons: Iran

Nuclear weapons pose a great threat to world peace, and many countries now claim that they right a right to them. One specific current issue has to do with Iran and their move towards becoming nuclear. Iran has proved to be untrustworthy, and the president has even gone as far to claim that Israel should be wiped off the map. With a large portion of the country wanting to destroy other countries such as Israel and America, allowing them to become nuclear proves an immense threat. The United States as well as their ally Israel currently has sanctions on Iran in hopes that they will stop their nuclear program. Iran claims that their becoming a nuclear nation is only for peaceful purposes, such as supplying nuclear energy to citizens, but the U.S. obviously doesn’t agree since they reacted with putting sanctions on Iran. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, “Iran has so far done little to disprove the allegations that it may have been trying to develop a nuclear warhead.” In my opinion, the Unites States is proving to be very weak, which only gives the impression to Iran that they can and will continue with their nuclear program. The sanctions obviously are not working, as the U.S. and Israel plan to further tighten them soon. Other strong countries, such as Russia, have made exceptions to the sanctions, which allow them to basically support Iran’s program. President Obama didn’t protest against this by allowing it to happen, and is doing nothing to stop it. With countries like Iran that know no limits, it’s impossible to reason with them. In fact, the Iranian government probably knows by now that Obama is such a weak president who will try to reason rather than use force, so they’d feel more comfortable proceeding with their nuclear programs. If Obama really wanted to stop this, he would have used force, however, he won’t because it would be unpopular and he is already well into campaigning for a second term. Unless we decide to inspect the facilities and is necessary forcefully stop Iran, they will continue their program.

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