Hiroshima survivors in Israel, hold nuke protest

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24. Yes, I do believe it, and no ...... I don't believe they are making a bomb.

Canada has oil and energy, yet we have nuclear power, nuclear medicine. Iran has signed on to the NPT and allowed inspections for years. Has the U.S. and Israel?

Sanctions tighten Iran’s oil industry

New US and European sanctions targets Iran's dilapidated oil sector, making it more difficult to maintain output

The US, seeking to halt Tehran’s nuclear enrichment activities, passed unilateral sanctions earlier in July that for the first time allow it to punish the US operations of international firms who supply fuel to Iran.

Although the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter, Iran lacks the refining capacity to meet domestic fuel demand and relies on imports to meet up to 40 percent of its gasoline needs.
The EU’s new measures are its first attack on technical assistance and investment in an oil industry already sapped by years of international isolation.

http://www.theneweconomy.com/energy/non-renewables/sanctions-tighten-irans-oil-industry


3. Iran has a legitimate need for more energy, which is driving its nuclear efforts.

Iran has always insisted that its nuclear research was for peaceful purposes only: to provide more energy to a growing Iran. In all the debate over the possibility of Iranian nuclear weapons, it is easy to overlook the fact that Iran does indeed need more power, power which nuclear plants could provide.

While Iran is a major supplier of both oil – it is the fourth largest producer in the world according to the CIA's World Factbook – it is also a major consumer. The Green Party of Iran (an environmental party not to be confused with the Green Movement behind the 2009 presidential protests) estimated in 2000 that Iran ranked second only to the US in gasoline consumption. But despite Iran's huge oil production, it lacks the facilities to refine it into gasoline, forcing it to import a barrel of oil for every eight it exports. According to Majd, some Iranians blame their lack of refining infrastructure on Western sanctions.

Iran is also the world's fifth largest producer of natural gas globally according to the CIA's World Factbook . But it consumed 137.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2010, almost as much natural gas as it produced that year. (Editor's note: This sentence was revised to correctly reflect Iran's natural gas production in 2010.)

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0608/Iran-s-nuclear-program-4-things-you-probably-didn-t-know/Iran-has-a-legitimate-need-for-more-energy-which-is-driving-its-nuclear-efforts

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10178169