Friday May 4, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Iran is racing towards nuclear development.
The West is trying to monitor Iran's race toward nuclear development.
The two are headed towards a standoff.

While Iran and the West may be at odds over the situation, this is not a purely black and white issue.
There is a lot of grey area here.
It is that grey area that may provide the "out" necessary to avoid a standoff.

What precisely is the grey area? The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty permits members the right to develop nuclear energy - as long as those countries are monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN.(IAEA)
Iran has signed the treaty.

The executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Claude Mandil, put ti perfectly. He said: "I don't see why a country like Iran could not have nuclear power as part of its energy mix."

This could very well be the compromise everyone had been looking for.
This could be the way out of a sticky, dangerous, international dilemma.
Let's watch and see.