'It's a sin': Iran calls on treaty to ban nuclear weapons

reply to post by jazz10


Just for the record, nuclear energy is not free energy. Uranium is a non-renewable resource that is also on the path to depletion, just like oil. However, it still has more than half a century to go, and breeder plants can somewhat "perpetuate" the energy.

The threat here is two phases:

- Major oil & gas exporting nations furfill their own domestic energy needs with other means. This gives these countries more oil and gas resources to sell to other countries, which makes them more wealthier and more powerful (especially if they have nationalist policies).
- The world is continually growing and growing. The two major countries that are going to dominate global consumption rates in decades to come are the US and China (and other major nations like India, Japan, Brazil and the EU follow). Oil production will become more expensive because it will be harder to do. The countries who have the most oil to sell have the most to gain by selling their surplus to the countries that are addicted to oil.

It should be easy to put this together: the US doesn't want a major oil exporting nation to work outside of its sphere of influence. Containing Iran is also an effort to contain China and India. Pushing for nuclear energy in Iran is to China and India's benefit because it means more fuel for them in the future. Russia falls into the equation because of geostrategy- they want Iran to not fall into the American sphere, and if successful, the entire American-lead campaign into the middle-east will have lost one of its major objectives; to contain Iran for future strategic needs, and oil is the primary strategic resource.