Suspected Nuclear Technology

President Obama wants weapons inspectors from the United Nations to release any information they have about possible nuclear weapons within the country. If the information is released it will fire up the debate between the United States and its allies about how exactly to begin dealing with this issue. The United Nations group, International Atomic Energy Agency, is concerned that if such data is published Iran will eject inspectors from the country once and for all, thus closing the only window of opportunity to see just what experimentation Iran is doing with nuclear weapons. Iranian trade partners, such as Russia and China, are resisting proposed oil and financial sanctions that would cause isolation in Iran until solid information comes out about possible nuclear weapons. In the meantime inspectors continue visiting the country regularly though the future of an actual report on weapons of mass destruction remains in question.

The article suggests that the United States is once again proposing evidence that it does not have regarding nuclear weapons (the same thing happened in Iraq). What are the rights that Iran has in this? We already know about their poor record regarding human rights; does possible nuclear weapons take this to a new level? What about the United States? If we once again decide to invade a Middle Eastern country based purely on our own supposed evidence what could happen to Iranian citizens? In Iraq not much came of the search for nuclear weapons yet many innocents were killed as a result of our invasion.