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One possible benefit to this discussion being on HN is that there are a number of people who know that international law or who have expertise with the science and can give reasoned discussion about the risks / rewards of Iran having nuclear power.

Sadly, HN tends to handle politics threads like these poorly.

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I think benefits of electricity are obvious.

That doesn't really make any sense. The treaties to stop enriching uranium always offer far more economically in return than a nation gets for doing the actual enrichment. That's how everyone knows it is for weapons. If you would earn $5 doing something yourself and someone offers you $10 not to do it, and you refuse, then you are getting something other than the $5 for it. In this case you are getting weapons production capability, which is why you were offered the extra money not to do it in the first place.

I think they have lot of dolars from oil, so perhaps money are not that important. Perhaps they are just show strenght. Perhaps they do it just to piss off US.

Still, enriching uranium for civil use is they right.

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