Europe STILL Wants To Give Iran More Uranium

USATODAY.com - Iran insists on right to enrich uranium

Giving Iran one last chance to avoid the threat of U.N. sanctions, Britain, France and Germany will offer nuclear fuel and economic incentives at a meeting Thursday in return for assurances [that] the Tehran regime will suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said.
The offer came as Iran announced Wednesday [that it has proposed a compromise] to end the standoff over its nuclear program. But Iran insisted anew on its right to enrich uranium, which the United States [claims] is part of a covert attempt to build an atomic weapon.

Iran vows to continue it's nuclear program, which the nation claims is intended only for generating electricity. This vow is a setback to European diplomats, who had hoped to prevent Iran from enriching uranium.

The line above is a paraphrase, because I find it oddly difficult to understand what the journalist has written. The original sentence used pronouns in a somewhat-cryptic way.

So, Europe wants to give Iran nuclear fuel in exchange for an assurance that Iran won't make nuclear weapons. A logical person would require Iran to give up machinery that can make nukes, or maybe exile some nuclear scientist, but these diplomats seem happy with the promise of a dishonest nation.

It was a deal like this that allowed North Korea to obtain nukes. And, I believe it may be a deal much like Europe's that also allowed Iran to build a nuclear program.


Let me explain this in a non-international-relations way. Suppose someone breaks into your house and tries to steal a lot of your property. You catch them and threaten to force them out. However, the thief insists that he still wants your stuff. To reach a compromise, you help him fill his truck with your stuff, and you do not call the police because he left peacefully (with a lot of your stuff, but you helped him steal it). A week later, the thief comes back with a bigger truck and starts emptying your house. Again, you agree to help him fill his truck so the thief doesn't damage your house (as the thief doesn't care about tearing up the house). So, the thief again drives away with more of your stuff, and you don't call the cops. This goes on until your house is empty, and the thief has all of your stuff.
If you didn't help the thief, he wouldn't have come back, so you would only lose some of your property. Also, because you helped the thief, he didn't really commit a crime because you willingly gave up your property. Also, had you called the cops, the thief would be arrested and everything would be replaced.
However, because the homeowner is naive and doesn't consider the future, he is left with nothing and has only himself to blame.

Europe is, in effect, the naive homeowner. Europe is willing to give Iran a greater ability to build nukes (or more advanced weapons, like hydrogen bombs), in exchange for a false promise of future good behavior. If this process of appeasement is allowed to continue, Europe will sacrifice everything to threatening nations. Once Europe sacrifices enough, the appeased will become more powerful than the appeaser. Then, the appeased is free to do whatever it wants, and may even conquer the former appeaser.