The discussion about the nuclear program of the IRI regime has been going on among the Iranians of the diaspora, and those within Iran of course, while the attention has often been on some issues while ignoring some other very important issues completely. Iranians have usually been saying that having access to nuclear energy and technology is an undeniable and important right of the Iranian people and no-one ought to deny it to us, Iranians.
And most Iranians, an overwhelming majority of them inside Iran and probably a majority of them outside Iran (don’t know this one for sure), have been attacking the US administration for not letting the Iranian regime develop its “peaceful” nuclear activities.
I am not in favour of the Iranian regime and its policies. The Iranian regime has no respect for human rights. The Iranian regime gets involved in International affairs that have no benefit for the Iranian people, like arming and financing groups in Lebanon and Palestine, and even getting involved in other places around Iran, and of course everybody knows about Iraq. None of these foreign adventures bring any benefit to Iranians, to ordinary Iranians, and of course they do harm the image of Iran abroad.
The Iranian regime has no respect for the human rights of its own people, murdering political dissidents, persecuting religious minority groups, hanging people for crimes they committed, or not, when they were under 18, and hanging people for their ideological beliefs or even natural differences such as the case of homosexuals.
This is the Iranian regime. Iranians fear the regime. It is almost like an ocean where Iranians hang on to their boats, bowing to the ocean, and begging God for the mercy of the ocean, so it does not get too tumultuous where their own boats are located on the moving dangerous waters. This is the regime that has no respect for Iranians and non-Iranians inside or outside Iran. This is the regime that wants nuclear technology, and the US and the International community ACCEPT it.
It is not the nuclear technology that the US, or the EU, and the International community, fear most (though they do fear the regime no matter what), but it is those bits and pieces of this technology that are solely used for developing weapons, such as the uranium enrichment part of it. And the Iranian regime wants to develop technology that it can at any time desire to turn into a weapons technology with ease. An Iran capable of developing an atomic bomb is not much less dangerous than an Iran already owning an atomic bomb.
And Iranians, and many of the same Iranians who actually hate and fear, the Iranian regime, are shouting at the US and its allies for being such hypocrites they do not want poor little Akhoundi regime of Iran to have some bombs or the technology to develop them on its own? Yes, the world is not perfect, but these democratic Western countries are trying to protect the interests of their own citizens, unlike the Iranian regime, which by fooling its citizens and portraying itself as the victim, is trying to do nothing but to pursue its non-humane and non-democratic ideological aims inside Iran and outside of it, with the cost of sacrificing its own people’s present and future.
While the Iranian people are suffering from inflation, unemployment, an enormous problem with drug addiction among the youth, rampant criminality, and prostitution on a vast scale (even with all the public hangings), the Iranian fundamentalist regime is doing what to combat all these problems? Nothing much. This nuclear debate has shifted the attention of the Iranians, inside and outside Iran, from the real issues that are affecting the lives of ordinary Iranians to an area where the only winner is no other but the same cruel and undemocratic regime.
And let’s just look at the realities of this so-much-talked-about nuclear technology and see what it is good for! First of all, the problem for Iranians today is not electricity. Iran has no problem with electricity ath this moment. Iran has serious problems with unemployment and inflation on a material basis, and human rights on a more moral basis. But, putting aside these more urgent problems, we can also think about a future Iran without oil, as the Iranian regime does, and see whether nuclear energy will save Iran then!
When Iran runs out of oil it will have lost its most lethal weapon for intimidation against the West and democratic and free countries of the world it stands against, ideologically. And that will be when a nuclear bomb will be really handy. But will this nuclear technology be also useful for ordinary Iranians? Will it make up for the oil revenue? No. It won’t. It will make either no difference at all, or its impact will hardly be felt economically, but it may bring serious trouble from an environmental point of view.
Iran will never be able to sell anything obtained from its nuclear installations. The electricity that will be produced, at some costs, will only be able to serve the country. Iran’s nuclear installations will never match those of the US, the EU, or other powerful countries.
Iran’s technology is old and mostly out-dated. They will not be able to compete with modern technologies, especially knowing that technology advances with a very rapid pace and Iranian technologies of today are far older than their rival ones in the West at this moment and they will fare much worse in the future when these Western technologies will be even more advanced.
The costs of maintaining these nuclear installations will be high, and a dysfunctional economy will hardly manage to keep them running in good conditions, to avoid huge economic losses, and also to avoid huge environmental threats that such dangerous technology always carries.
Time may also come that an un-reformed economic system would be unable to sustain the continuous functionality of the nuclear installations and they would be forced to be shut down, and importing electricity would be considered much cheaper rather than to be produced by the out-dated nuclear installations. And the current economic system of Iran is not a functional one, which without the constant infusion of US dollars obtained from selling crude oil, would immediately collapse, leading to even higher inflation and almost complete economic failure of the entire country, leaving Iranians without the most basic necessities of life. And who will subsidise the nuclear installation when there will be no money? Well, the regime can always take away what is left to the poor ordinary Iranians and feed a technology, a fearsome technology, that may be its only chance of survival in an ideologically opposed world.
So, let’s not be fooled by the IRI regime and try to focus on the real issues and problems of Iran and Iranians! Iran does not need, and will not need nuclear technology, unless there are some serious reforms that improve the economy first and eventually also improve the human rights conditions for Iranians. A reformed Iran would prosper without any need for Russian and North Korean nuclear installations, but with the work and entrepreneurship of the hard-working and smart Iranians, especially before oil is gone.
