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Originally Posted by madm1k3
Bullshit
How many "inspectors" were sent into Iraq? They all found nothing! 1 million civilian deaths later and USA goes home. Why should Iran play a game they can't win?
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I think we might be confusing different things here.
With Iraq, the inspectors weren't looking at nuclear power plants. They were looking for WMDs, namely chemical weapons. This was part of the peace treaty signed in 1991 (1992?) when Iraq was kicked out of Kuwait. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
With Iran, it's about nuclear power. No one can really tell the world Iran cannot have nuclear power. But the rest of the world can insist on having the right to inspect nuclear power plants.
Even at the height of the cold war, everyone was inspecting everyone's nuclear power plants. I'm sure there was lots of spying going on, but you couldn't really prevent it. And in this case, the world isn't going to be learning anything from Iran - everyone else has a forty year lead on Iran or whatever.
The world has the right to inspect nuclear power plants and nuclear power programs. Weapons are another matter. While Iran has never attacked another country, it's also threatened to destroy Israel on a regular basis. If you threaten me with a stick, I'm going to make sure you don't have any sticks. Then again, Iran attacking Israel with nukes would mean the end of Iran and most of the Middle East, so it's kind of pointless.