From the
AP:
UNITED NATIONS -- Iran's president proclaimed his country's "inalienable right" to nuclear energy and offered foreign countries and companies a role in his nation's uranium enrichment program to prove Tehran is not producing nuclear weapons.
In a fiery speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected a renewed offer from the European Union, backed by the United States, to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for economic and other incentives.
He claimed that Iran continued to abide by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and accused some "powerful states" -- an apparent reference to the United States and European countries -- of engaging in "nuclear apartheid" by discriminating against access by treaty members to material, equipment and peaceful nuclear technology.
Okay. I'm from another planet, and as a result, I sometimes ask questions that Earthlings think are stupid.
In the spirit of that, here are a few "stupid" questions.
Why can't Iran pursue nuclear energy? For that matter, why can't they have nuclear weapons?
Do Earth countries get tired of being lectured about nuclear/atomic weapons by the only country who has ever used nuclear/atomic weapons in a war?
Lastly, what gives the U.S. the right to have nuclear/atomic weapons, but not Iran? Is the U.S. better than Iran in some way?
For more dumb questions, read the Martian Anthropologist blog.