Iran is allowed under law to build a nuclear reactor and process fuel. The way in which it is doing it and the rhetoric it has used in the past makes if a very worrying issue. It has ignored many offers in helping building civilian nuclear power plants and supply of nuclear fuel if it would discontinue it's nuclear program but has refused.
Many of the countries with nuclear reactors are open for international inspection, this helps to reassure other countries that nothing untoward is going on and that countries stay accountable and transparent in there dealings.
Iran has either refused this or has give lip service to it. They say they need it for energy supply, are they going to run out of oil in the near future and aren't going to tell anyone? Pakistan is bad enough with nuclear weapons, Iran would be a lot worse. It already has launches capable of long range delivery of nuclear warheads, and would use them without fear of consequence if it felt it suited them.
Many nations have been vocal and have tried to reason with Iran over this but have got nowhere. Israel has raised concerns, but has been relatively quiet about this (compared to others in articles that I've read, I understand this may not be the case). They might do a military strike to try and stop it, but it would be a lot harder than when they did it to Iraq, greater distance (and flying over Iraq's airspace would be a political minefield) the dispersement of the sites producing nuclear componates and well as the protection given by there location and military defences.
To try and stop them is the hard part, and I don't think the world can let Iran get nuclear weapons, but the fallout from stopping them many very real.
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