Why the United States can have a nuclear program but, Iran cannot?

I understand where this decision came from... it came about at the end of WW2 when the UN was created. During this process, the 5 prominent winners of WW2 were given permanent veto power over the UN and allowed to make these types of decisions for the world.

BUT just because I understand where it came from does not mean I agree today.

I think such power and position in the world must be earned and maintained the same way respect should be.

The President of Iran stated this is a speech just last year... he caught my attention when he brilliantly said, "... what is the timeline... is it forever, is it 1000 years... was it meant to never be changed..."

Very valid questions...

Yes, the US used nuclear weapons against a country that they were at war with at the time. The times were different then. The president of Iran has spoken some very disturbing threats toward another country that is not even at war with. He is trying to fill the vacuum which Saddam left. He is trying to be the next strong man in the Muslim world. (He was elected because of his promise to improve the economy and stop corruption in Iran. He did not promise to make Iran the next super power in the region: hidden agenda). Why would the US attack Iran? If he did not make threats to other nations and try to make nuclear weapons and support terrorism there would be no reason. Iran should have the right to have nuclear power. But it should not be allowed to make a nuclear bomb. The UK US and France have never openly threatened another country with total destruction since it has the bomb. They are not so irresponsible as other countries.

This was an interesting topic in my Nuclear Engineering courses I switched out of last semester. From what it appears to me is look at cases of blatant disregard for the capabilities of nuclear power such as Chernobyl, Russia. The reactor was not designed the right way and for that reason when it ran into issues the whole thing went critical when it should not have and has injured and tortured hundreds of thousands of people as a result. Now this is simply an example of what happens with a nuclear reactor. A nuclear bomb is 20 times more powerful. How many more nuclear weapons does the US create per year? Little to none, or other countries for that matter as far as is allowed. The capabilities of nuclear weapons is way too dangerous for anyone to handle, and in the situation of Iran we started to let them build nuclear power plants, but we have found traces of enriched uranium being used in places that are inexcusable which means under no proper supervision they were starting to develop weapons. This is absolutely uncalled for, all the nuclear weapons currently made are accounted for and at any given situation if one is made and goes missing we know it. However, if they are being made with no supervision or in a place such as the Middle East where things are known to tend to "go missing" it can cause a lot of problems and a lot of trauma for a lot of people. So from my understanding it is simply best to just keep the ones we have and pray that no one in any circumstance unleashes this highly unlawful weaponry on people.

Hey, Charlie, the USA didn't come up with this edict by itself. The UN backed the resolution and so did the other countries in Europe, etc.They are for cessation of nuclear development on the part of Iran. Be a hero and insist that Iran has the same rights as any other nation even though they are lead by an idiot who is their president. When you are disintegrated by an Iranian bomb you will realize that your stand was an improper one. Iran cannot be trusted to have nuclear weaponry and if we do not do something soon, Israel will zap them like they did Iraq many years ago. Bye, bye nuclear facilities.

I do remember, the USA had invaded North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, threatening to invaded Iran. All this country did not have the deterent mechanism to prevent the United States of America to invaded their country and killed MILLION of innocent people in the name of America democracy.

The USA simply do not want Iran to have a nuclear weapons, becoz it will be an impossible mission for them to invade the country in the future. They have to invade Iran to have oil supply from Iran.

So they do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, so that The USA and Israel (USA adopted son) can easily conquered Iran.

It' had been prooved that only USA used the nuclear weapons to destroy a town.

I'm hereby asking you all to condemn the USA unless of course you are a devil friend's.

Thank You.

I don't remember the US, UK and France threatening to wipe their neighbors off the map. ( Israel ) When you have a lunatic Iranian President making those kind of threats, do you think it's wise to trust him with nuclear weapons?

Saying that Israel needs to be annihilated is not hypothetical, that is the Iranians intent. You know it, I know it, the world knows it.

So no, you can't have nukes. Get over it.

You seem to avoid the FACT that the US used the 2 atomic bombs to stop a war. Iran has mad it clear it would have no difficulty using theses weapons in an offensive manner to start a war. And anyone who believes Iran would limit the use of nuclear weapons to just Israel knows very little about Middle East regional politics.....and smuggling in such devices into Europe and the US.

Nobody forbids Iran to develop NPPs and nuclear energetics program. But it seems that they never intent to develop CIVIL nuclear power program (one of the evidences - they are breaking IAEA requirements, close their facilities for inspections and deny all of the compromise initiatives of international community). It seems that they want to produce weapon grade nuclear materials...

Taking in consideration the fact that they develop delivery systems and declare one of their political goals - to eliminate Israel (Iran is the only country which declared officially that the country aims to demolish another country) - it's obvious that it will be very dangerous to let Iran to possess nuclear weapons... dangerous not only for US (which was not once declared as the enemy by Iran officials), but for Israel, Russia, Europe etc....

Prevention is better than war..

Didn't I see you ask this question several days ago?

Iran can't be trusted with nuclear weapons. The Americans, the Europeans, and the Israelis all understand that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a threat to them. It doesn't come down to rights, exactly; if the Americans et al have the power to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, they should. It's foolish to allow an enemy to gain a strategic advantage while you sit by and watch.

Your absolutely right! But we know that Iran and probably others would like to take out Israel,and America believes the Jews are the 'chosen people' so they will intervene if a threat is evident. I don't agree with it,but until we either agree or disagree on Israel this will continue for another..............2000 years!