What's the difference for Iran?
Iran hasn't weaponized its enriched uranium after 22 years of struggling with really tough sanctions.
We can continue to stockpile enriched uranium, but if we don't want to go after weaponization of it, it is absolutely useless and a complete waste of resources and energy.
Countries with commercial nuclear enrichment go after 1 million SWU U/year. Iran's SWU capacity is about 10K SWU UF6/year. Soon, we will have 3 nuclear reactors that each one of them requires 27 tones of uranium enriched to 3.5%. Our nuclear enrichment has to increase to 550,000 SWU UF6/year to support our own nuclear program for one year. Do you think the West will allow us to increase our enrichment 55 times? Of course not.
So, if we can't use our enriched uranium for our own nuclear reactors, and if we don't intend to use it for fission bombs, then why should we continue to do something that is useless and stupid?
Okay, so you have to step back a bit.
Why is Iran under the scanner in the first place?
Before uranium it was about oil,
Before Ayatollahs it was the shah,
Before theocracy it was autocracy...
What is the purpose of someone so concerned with Iranian affairs and how they deal within or in their region?
The equation is not zion has an ally and friend in Arabs, Kurds, Turks or Iranians. The one who seeks to rule and superimpose itself on the region seeks NONE!
Scattered and squabbling seeking zion as their SAVIOR!
Iran isn't in crosshairs because it seeks to produce its own electricity... it is because of what it endows and what it represents. A coherent mass that challenges a supremacist state. Who will not accept you AS IS even if you submit, kneel and kissed the ring. It is the same with regional Arab rump states... who eat seeing their own die and shown live on the big screen. It is the same for Turks and Egyptians.
I have nothing to prove here... they say so... did so and in time gung ho for what remains. Which is why those who claim that they kept their heads down find themslves hit harder... relegated to abomination Abbas like situation.
If Iran is to survive, there is nothing but to build up... bigger, better longer and keep repeating till you create enough of space between you and the belligerent. They must know that they are called out and fair play. The paradigm that sustains them is just about done... they will no longer have that window, utility nor capacity to overwhelm, escalate or respond with superior firepower.
in fact, if anything Iran should do military training and exercises with Russians, Chinese and other regional states. Go for a coalition and not solo... especially in talks. JCPOA had guarantors, they remained true... commit them... they didn't blink.
Thing is zion is now on an expedited timeline and the war on Iran was slated for Obama's terms... he dithered... but did deliver Libya... Miliekowsky chosen model for Iran. While they play good cop, bad cop routine.