Iran – uranium enrichment

As I have said many times before, Iran has every right to enrich it’s uranium for peaceful purposes. The UN has decided to create it’s “own” set of legal guidelines and these are decided on by the leaders who already “have” developed nuclear power. They have formed their own club and it would appear that they want the rest of the world to come begging to them for nuclear power generation or medical isotopes etc.
The west claims that it simply doesn’t want Iran to develop a nuclear bomb. But clearly it is more than that. Why else would the west not agree to Iran’s proposal to exchange enriched uranium on it’s own soil? Iran would get what it needs and the west would get what it was asking for…..an Iran that didn’t enrich it’s uranium past a low percentage point….. keeping it well away from the point of enriching it’s fuel to bomb grade material under inspections. But the west said no to that …and why?
The reason, I am told by BBC’s Paul Reynolds, is that “Iran’s low-enriched uranium would be out of Iran for about a year, giving time, it is said, for longer-term negotiations. A swap or a drip feed would not achieve that end so has not been accepted.”
If you were Iran….. would you hand over your very valuable processed uranium with the idea that you might not see it back in a year …depending on how new negotiations go?
I find this very much like the weapons inspections in Iraq when they were demanding Iraq to prove that they did not have something. How do you possibly prove that you don;t have something. And yet I heard politicians ask that many times…. “Iraq has to prove to us that it does not have weapons of mass destruction”.
Iran is being asked to do something that no other country is being asked to do. Give up it’s perfect right to process it’s uranium for civilian purposes.
When all hell breaks loose in the middle east, I look forward to hearing our politicians answer why they did not accept the proposed deal by Iran….the exchange of the material on their soil. It seems like a fair proposal and with inspections, Iran could be watched and over time that trust that the west needs would have been built. Iran has needs as well. Right now our leaders are willing to risk world peace over a pissing contest.