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Transparency Essential for Iran Nuclear Program

Amit Pyakurel - 3/2/2006

There was a sudden upsurge on the lingering doubt over the Iran's nuclear ambition being solely for a peaceful purpose, since the IAEA's finding of Iran's documentation illustrating the way to modify highly enriched uranium into a nuclear weapon. The finding has incited the Western accusation on the Islamic Republic's interest upon nuclear weapons rather than it to "generate fuel."

But Iran refutes such accusation by causing that the document was provided to them unasked, by the traitor Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan, the person with whom Iraq once clandestinely acquired nuclear enrichment technology.

The ambiguity upon the Iran's nuclear issue hasn't shown any sign of alteration, regarding whether the Iranian prospect is heading towards a peaceful power-generation plan, or is likely to turn otherwise, approving the suspicion raised by international community that the country is hoping to foster nuclear weapons.

While the pressure has gained a new direction with the IAEA's proposal with UN to impose sanction against Iran, Iran is rigid on its "right" to enrich nuclear fuel regarding the stipulations of international Non-Proliferation Treaty. However, the West is reluctant to accept the Iran's right to bear nuclear power, as it doesn't trust Iran because of its concealment of 18-years long Uranium enrichment program.

Besides the unyielding argument on whether the Islamic Republic should work on its nuclear generation program or not, it seems that no one is getting confirmatory answer on how to solve this matter or how to prevent the suspected scenario of Iran holding the all-powerful nuclear weaponry?

Keeping aside its right to posses nuclear power, Iran however hasn't been seen in full-compliance with the international bystanders regarding its reluctance to provide a full-throttle transparency and suspicion raised by one or the other evidence or public idioms, adding-up confusion to the crisis.

West is trying to get Russia and China to comply with the Iranian issue, purposefully to prove that whatsoever it would not be just another confrontation with any other Islamic state, as this could turn the issue into a matter of reliable international standpoint.

As Russia and China both shares commercial interests in Iran, they are seemingly not willing to make any deliberate pressure though being unwilling to see Iran as an acquirer of Nuclear weapon. Iran at meantime has shown negative sign on the proposal of its enrichment in the Russian land. But a negotiation deal on this part doesn't seem to have ended and this could mean an important diplomatic turn to manage more reliability and delaying any offensive measures against Iran.

The distrust shown mainly by the Western allies and the doubt from the international arena about Iran's real intention seems somehow tangible,
regarding the concealing strategy that Iran being historically recognized with, and now signified by its reluctance on giving enough ground for investigation to the UN's nuclear Watchdog, IAEA.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that uncertainties over the Iran's issue have not been clarified after the three years of intensive agency verification. Lacking a full cooperation from Iran, the UN's nuclear watchdog still cannot tell whether Iran's nuclear program is peaceful, according to ElBaradei.

The issue that is basically disgruntling the international community is not that Iran acquiring nuclear power, but the fear that the country would bear nuclear arms pertaining to uncertainty of violence in the future. It could be a rational longing to prevent such weapons to be led by any hard-line curriculum or being misused by any Islamic radical entities.

As Iran has been gripping "why you and not me?" policy, it is also crucial for it to prove the world its own proclamation that it is aimed to a completely peaceful purpose. Such conveyance of non-violent intention and its trustworthy reputation towards the world community would only be possible if Iran will provide transparency by allowing unrestricted investigation on its highly controversial nuclear program by the international bystanders including that of IAEA.

Iran should understand that majority of world aren't against their progress but surely are concerned with the possible event of catastrophe that the nuclear weapons could bring about. Peace lovers around the world would always be against the competitive development of such weapons, be it on the "legal" or "illegal" basis.