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Forgiveness, Not Easy but Necessary

Jonathan Schell, The Daily Star | April 17, 2012

Iran and the P5+1 are moving to draft proposals to address their differences over Iran’s nuclear program. ++ In exchange for the full disclosure of all programs, Iran should be permitted to continue the enrichment of uranium for civilian purposes. ++ This should be facilitated by a grace period as proposed by Pierre Goldschmidt, meaning that Iran will not be penalized if it acknowledges any violations of the NPT, of its safeguards and/or the existence of any undeclared nuclear activities and material.

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Wed, Dec 12th 2012, 12:33

Yuki Yoshida, New York University, (6)

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Development of nuclear capability is Iran's inalienable right. But the right should be conditional. It is qualified as its right only if the nuclear power is used for peaceful methods, such as to generate power. However, Iran has firmly opposed to foreign investigation of the nuclear enrichment program, which increases the suspicion of Iran's possession of nuclear weapons or its capability to create such lethal weapons. If Iran continues claiming its peaceful use of nuclear power, it should allow foreign investigation so that its right will be fully respected. But, this should not be done forcibly because there is a potential of Iran using its weapons against Western states or its rival state in the region, Israel.

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