western countries ( and Russia ) refused to provide Iran with 20% enriched uranium for her medical needs even after an agreement was signed with Turkey and Brazil.
The agreement was followed by a forth set of sanctions.

Iran has nuclear facilities and a nuclear program.

The nuclear program is for a civilian nuclear electrical generation project.

To this end Russia helped Iran (to my knowledge) build their nuclear facilities to generate electric power and the uranium enrichment facilities to make the uranium suitable to use in these facilities.

That is all that probably would have happened if the United States, Israel and Europe didn't start making a fuss over the whole nuclear issue.

From Iran's perspective the United States, Israel, Britain, France, Canada and Germany all have very active nuclear programs both for civilian electrical generation projects and nuclear weapons programs.

Over the past 10 years Iran has seen the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Germany and other NATO allied countries attack, invade and occupy Iraq, Afghanistan, and most recently Libya to secure the oil and gas reserves in these countries.

To be honest if is my understanding that Iraq had taken control of Western oil facilities and was not interested in selling their oil to the United States. Iraq leadership was angry at having been duped into attacking Kuwait with the permission of the United States because the Iraqi's thought the Kuwaiti's were taking their oil by sideways drilling under their common border.

The Afghanistan conflict was all about securing an oil and gas pipeline route through Afghanistan. A land route that could not be negotiated with the Taliban. Finally conflict was inevitable. This oil pipeline has now been built from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, through Pakistan, to the Arabian Sea.

The planned demolition of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and the US Cruise Missile attack on the Pentagon was a United States False Flag operation to launch the two wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq and Afghanistan were falsely blamed for the events of 911 to justify launching military action against these two countries.

After ten years of war United States military forces were responsible for the deaths of 162,000 to 600,000 Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians.

These casualty figures were printed in the Canadian Globe and Mail this past Thursday or Friday January 5 or 6, 2011.

The author of the article used the casualty reports of the United States armed forces to determine these numbers.

Iran has a legitimate right to protect its country and its people against countries known to have nuclear weapons and who will engage in hostile military action to secure oil and natural gas reserves.

The United States, Israel, Britain, France, Canada and other European countries belonging to NATO have used military force in the past to secure oil and natural gas reserves.

Iran has a legitimate fear that the United States, Israel, Britain, France, Canada and other European countries belonging to NATO will attack, invade and occupy their country for the purpose of gaining control of Iran's oil and natural gas fossil fuel energy reserves.

It is now a well known fact that the United States, the world's largest consumer of oil and natural gas is running out of fossil fuel energy.

By 2019 the United States will exhaust its domestic oil reserves.

The United States produces 9 million barrels of oil a day.

The United States imports 9.7 million barrels of oil a day.

The United States consumes 18.7 million barrels of oil a day.

The United States depletes its oil reserves in 2019.

By the year 2020 the United States needs to import an additional 9.7 to 11 million barrels of oil a day.

This oil has to come from somewhere.

Making matters even worse 65% of European countries deplete their oil reserves by 2020.

Russia has sufficient oil reserves to last until 2032 based on current production.

By 2030 85% of the European countries will have depleted their domestic oil reserves.

Iran has a legitimate fear that the United States, Israel, Britain, France, Canada and other European countries belonging to NATO will attack, invade and occupy their country for the purpose of gaining control of Iran's oil and natural gas fossil fuel energy reserves.

I am no fan of Iran and how they treat their people. However I can understand Iran's fear of the west and their desire to protect their country and their natural resources from marauders.

And recently the United States, Israel, Britain, France, Canada and other European countries belonging to NATO have backed Iran into a corner economically by imposing banking and oil sanctions on their country.

Why are the United States, Israel, Britain, France, Canada and other European countries belonging to NATO so adamant that Iran NOT have a nuclear program? Because there is the possibility that Iran could develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent to a western lead attack, invasion and occupation of Iran to seize its oil and natural gas reserves for western control and distribution.

The Western mindset is that Iran simply cannot be allowed to defend itself.

And this is the problem and the reason for the economic banking and oil sanctions.

Arnold Vinette
Ottawa, Canada