The dispute over Iran’s enrichment
activities is more than a decade old.
In 2003, Iran offered to cooperate
with France, Germany, and the UK
to resolve international concerns,
agreeing to suspend key parts of its
enrichment program temporarily and
make it more transparent to help build
global confidence that Tehran was not
developing nuclear weapons. In the
United States, however, the George
W. Bush administration adopted the
view that Iran should not be allowed
to operate even a single centrifuge.
When diplomacy failed, Iran resumed
its enrichment program and has
built and installed large numbers of
centrifuges
Zero is a fantasy, and you can blame President George W. Bush’s administration for that. It may have been possible to convince Iran to dismantle all its centrifuges when it had only a few dozen in 2003 and first offered to talk to the U.S.. Or in 2005, when it had a few hundred and was in talks with the European Union. But the Bush administration spurned any deal. “We don’t negotiate with evil,” said Vice President Dick Cheney, “We defeat it.” As a result, the talks collapsed and Iran went from zero centrifuges installed at the beginning of the Bush administration to about 6,000 at the end.
The dispute over Iran’s enrichment
activities is more than a decade old.
In 2003, Iran offered to cooperate
with France, Germany, and the UK
to resolve international concerns,
agreeing to suspend key parts of its
enrichment program temporarily and
make it more transparent to help build
global confidence that Tehran was not
developing nuclear weapons. In the
United States, however, the George
W. Bush administration adopted the
view that Iran should not be allowed
to operate even a single centrifuge.
When diplomacy failed, Iran resumed
its enrichment program and has
built and installed large numbers of
centrifuges
From: http://r.duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fhosseinmousavian.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2FJuly_ACA_Agreeing-on-Limits-for-Iran-Centrifuge-Program.pdf
Zero is a fantasy, and you can blame President George W. Bush’s administration for that. It may have been possible to convince Iran to dismantle all its centrifuges when it had only a few dozen in 2003 and first offered to talk to the U.S.. Or in 2005, when it had a few hundred and was in talks with the European Union. But the Bush administration spurned any deal. “We don’t negotiate with evil,” said Vice President Dick Cheney, “We defeat it.” As a result, the talks collapsed and Iran went from zero centrifuges installed at the beginning of the Bush administration to about 6,000 at the end.
From: http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/02/why-our-obsession-irans-centrifuges-could-give-them-bomb/105660/