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Iran Choosy About Incentives and Demands

Picking and choosing generally doesn?t seem to go along with firm demands placed by the international community against a potential aggressor nation, but that is exactly what the Islamic Republic of Iran is doing with the package of incentives and demands recently handed to Teheran in efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis over the Islamic Republic?s nuclear research program. Iran insists that any nuclear research is for peaceful purposes, but it is well known that the country is a state-sponsor of terrorism and the countries that believe the theocratic government is working towards developing nuclear weapons are not limited to those countries in ?the West?.

The European Union has spearheaded efforts to find a non-military solution to get Iran to abandon its nuclear research and uranium enrichment, but Teheran has insisted that no cessation of enrichment will occur ? Iran is determined to conduct uranium enrichment on Iranian soil. Speculation has been rife for quite some time now as to whether the United States or Israel will ultimately decide that negotiations will not work and that the use of force will be necessary in order to prevent the Islamic Republic from gaining nuclear weapons.

Russia and China have been among the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council which oppose sanctions, for Russia, at least, lucrative business contracts are at stake. The United Kingdom, France, and non-Security Council member Germany have, under the heading of the ?EU-3?, acted as the primary negotiating team trying to entice Iran to abandon nuclear research. Still, nothing but military force it seems will curb Iran?s ambitions, even as several nations refuse to adhere to the oft-proven principle that simply even allowing the threat of military force or sanctions will bring a country around. It could be, though, that those countries which stand the most to lose from a democratic instead of theocratic Iran include those which currently oppose the use of force.