Originally Posted by
damian_steele
As part of the incredibly long, (over three years now) and still on-going, talks with Iran, they were offered a fully paid for, fully built and serviced, light water reactor. This reactor would have been more than capable to supply power for them. The Iranians turned it down.
They constantly state how they are being open and honest but fail to mention all times they haven't been.
For example:
under the terms of the NPT they are obligated to reveal all the sites where they are working on nuclear related materials; they "forgot" to mention several of them until these sites were independantly discovered.
On another occasion the IAEA informed the Iranians that they wanted to visit and inspect a particular site. The Iranians stalled, stalled some more and then stalled again. By the time they agreed to allow the inspectors to visit, the entire site including the buildings from the foundations upward, have been levelled and removed. They even removed the top soil around the area so the IAEA inspectors couldn't take samples.
Do these sound like the actions of a country who just wants peaceful nuclear power generation?