The issue of Iran continuing its purification of uranium has been hitting the news again, it seems that the country is always enriching it and that the US and its allies all always rattling their sabres. When will the group of eight, originally group of seven come to terms with something very fundamental, sanctions do more harm than good. It only gives Iran further reason to continue its research since it is acting on the basis of rejecting international opinion against it. This also cannot go on forever; there are now other sources of energy that these wealthy countries can use which do not require them to have any dealings with Iran at all, if they wanted to. It is clear that Iran does not need western money either.
Not long ago China was the object of a debate as to whether it to should be a nuclear power. Today it is an integral part of the nuclear community and an important power player in Africa regarding the Sudan and other regions. In the late seventies a country most likely detonated an atomic bomb in the Indian Ocean off the South African coast. This conclusion was based on satellite evidence. Based on these two examples, is it fair for this one nation not to have the bomb and others to have them?
Another issue is that Israel has been busy destroying nuclear development in the region since 1981. It entered Iraq space that year to destroy an installation and recently entered Syrian space to do the same. It is planning also to do the same in Iran. These countries will probably continue their research programs on the development of other energy and defence resources regardless of foreign intervention unless those populations are totally replaced or wiped out. Does this make sense?
For years to the issue of the threat of blocking oil being traded through the Strait of Hormuz should a conflict escalate there, has been fanned in the international news. I don't know how that would ever happen because even though there is such a large portion of the world's oil going through the strait, we are quickly moving away from Iran a source. I guess the US needs to intensify its presence in the region to allay fears of any possible disruption in the oil traffic but it also has to take some responsibility as being an antagonist by periodically sending military ships in the region.
