Iran and Nuclear Weapons

[erpowers]

Didn't the agreement that Iran and other countries signed allow those countries to have nuclear energy in exchange of not making a bomb. I know I heard someone giving a speech in which they said that some agreement, I think the Nuclear Nonproliferation agreement, allowed the countries that had nuclear weapons keep their and prevent those that did not have them from getting them. However, there was a catch. Those countries that could not have nuclear weapons would be allowed to have nuclear energy as long as they did not build a nuclear bomb. So, what is Iran doing wrong? Do they not have a right to have nuclear energy?

[bananas]

1. Yes, that's correct

There are still legitimate concerns that in the future,
they might stop abiding by the NPT,
or they might provide the technology to other countries.

For example, the two reactors at Bushehr were originally started under the Shah,
the technology was provided by the U.S., and he wanted to build about 20 of them.
The uncompleted reactors were bombed by Iraq during the Iraq-Iran wars.
If the reactors had been completed before the Shah was overthrown,
Iran under Ayatollah Komeini could have developed nuclear weapons to use against Iraq.

[dave_p]

2. There are inspection complaints too

Iran's not been over-cooperative with the IAEA, possibly recalling how the US accessed Unscom intelligence in the 1990s for future attacks on Iraq.

The US encountered worse obstruction inspecting Israel's nuclear facilities in the 1960s, but visits there were quietly abandoned so that Israel had its bomb by 1968.