Viewpoints: Iran's nuclear crisis

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United States is the most responsible nation for Iran’s nuclear issues. They provided the idea of building nuclear power plants before Iran’s revolution, and they refused to complete it after revolution. If US or other western countries could offer their assistance in completing the Iranian nuclear sites, they could have had full access to the sites. But now, Iranians have the knowledge to build the technology from scratch, and scraping what they currently have would only temporarily reduce the worries. The only thing that can be done at this point is to stop threatening the Iranian regime and let Iranian people proceed with their strong pro-democracy reform movements. Under close IAEA inspections and with no fear of regime toppling, there will be no need for Iranian government to divert its nuclear program towards nuclear weapons.