Desire for Nuclear Empowerment a Uniting Factor in Iran - Washington Post

The Mullahs of Iran are using the conflict with the US over nuclear technology to their advantage. We need to be wise in how we play our cards.

Iranians are deeply divided on politics, the economy, the role of religion in government and a dress code for women. But reformers and conservatives, urban and rural, old and young, rich and poor, and men and women generally agree on one thing: Iran needs nuclear energy, and despite its oil and gas riches, the world should not deprive it of the technology, even though it could also be used to develop weapons.

Iranians cite four reasons for their increasingly fierce determination to acquire nuclear technology: the economics of oil, a population boom that is consuming more energy, regional security and anger at what many perceive as a U.S. ultimatum that Iran end its nuclear program. more

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