Iran's Nuclear Rights

"If the world seeks good relations with Iran, it should choose the way of surrendering to Iran's rights, respecting the Iranian nation and praising Iranian scientists."
"The Iranian nation has never been after a weapon of mass destruction, since it does not even see it as legitimate. We do not have anything on the table to submit to others except transparency."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

"They expect restricting Iran's missile program while they are continuously raising military threats against Iran. Hence, such an expectation is idiotic and insane."
Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei

Arak Heavy Water Plant

As Muslims submit to Islam, so must the international community submit to Iran. Whatever Iran plans and does it is instructed to do by and on behalf of pure, luminous Islam. Islam has sanctioned work on nuclear fusion. But of course, for peaceful means only. Medical isotopes, energy. The energy that sources from Iran's vast fossil fuel resources is meant solely for export; the country must look to diversify its own energy needs and nuclear looks useful.

Peaceful, that is what describes Iran. And its relations with its Sunni-dominated neighbours who have, since the 1980s, fretted for nothing at all, over the Islamic Republic of Iran's intentions toward them a dead herring. Has it ever publicly issued threats that it means to annihilate Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Egypt? Certainly not. Israel now, that's another matter entirely, and it is permissible, for Israel claims itself to be a Jewish nation, desecrating by its foul presence, land dedicated formerly to Islam.

Iran is looking forward to eventual success in its negotiations with the six world powers, reliant on its formidable powers of persuasion, if not its well-enough known powers of evasion. The principle of wearing down the resolve of one's antagonists by patience and forbearance is a tried-and-true technique, even with the forbearance in short supply for which cunning may be substituted under Islamic law, when it represents a nation's existential need.

The international United Nations (IAEA) inspectors have been permitted into the country's nuclear sites, absent its nuclear-military sites; red-line, off the schedule; there are clear limits to co-operation, after all. Iranian officials claim they have fulfilled a series of information releases relating to its focus on developing a model of explosive detonator. Yes, it can be fitted for use with nuclear weapons; merely incidental.

"We will enter into the writing of the [final] draft in this round of the talks", said Iran's senior nuclear negotiator Abass Araghchi. Grand Ayatollah Khamenei remains defiantly outraged at the demands by the West that Tehran restrict its missile power. Insisting its ballistic missile program is completely devoid of a nuclear dimension, adamant that its defence industry is its own business and intrusions into its business represents a "red line", beyond which the nuclear talks may not enter.

 While the United States has argued that a United Nations Security Council resolution has banned Iran from "undertaking any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons", Tehran scorns the very idea that it could be suspected of deviating from its specific stated terms of reference for its nuclear program; a domestic energy source and medical isotope production.

The peace-loving Grand Ayatollah on Sunday made a grand entrance to examine an aerospace exhibition in Tehran where an advanced CIA spy drone, captured by Iran in 2011, sat alongside its Iranian-produced copy.