Iran's Nuclear Legal Obligations
There
are many respects in which a greater effort in the West and in
particular the United States to understand Iranian perspectives and
sentiments would facilitate more productive Western policies toward
Iran, particularly with respect to that country's nuclear program. There
is, for example, the issue of balance in proposed agreements, in which
it should be understandable that Tehran opposes a trade that would place
major restrictions on its nuclear activities in return for sanctions
relief that would be almost trivial in comparison with the panoply of
sanctions imposed on Iran. There is the comparably understandable
Iranian suspicion, in watching behavior by the United States and
especially the U.S. Congress, that the United States is only interested
in punishing Iran, not negotiating an agreement with it. And there is
the natural resistance in Iran—just as there would be in the United
States—to caving in to foreign pressure, including threats of military
force.
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