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Delegation: Islamic Republic of Iran Committee: The United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency Topic: Nuclear Development of Iran
 * Position Paper**

__**France's Position in Iran Nuclear Involvement**__

While Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in 1968, with seemingly good intentions, since the overthrow of it's shah, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's nuclear involvement and relations with other countries took a turn for a worse. For this reason we, the United Nations of France firmly stands with the United Nations on the Resolution of 1669 (7/2006) demanded that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment activities; this was a legally binding resolution. However, in 2005 before Iran was banned nuclear usage,in 2006, our Ambassador Bernard Poletti said that we would work with Iran to produce nuclear electricity. Because of this ties were created between us and Iran causing “Public opinion in Iran regards France as reasonable, free, and a supporter of justice, and due to this view, it was expected that the government of that country would be on the side of Iran in the nuclear issue.”

To aid Iran in its production of creating electricity with nuclear technology we assisted, along with the U.S and Germany, by making a deal with them for nuclear reactors. We also were a supplier of reprocessed nuclear material to Iran along with others. However, we stopped aiding Iran in nuclear development when the UN declared that “ ...All States should prevent the supply, sale, or transfer, for the use by or benefit of Iran, of related equipment and technology, if the State determined that such items would contribute to enrichment related processing.”

While the United States did not feel uncomfortable with Iran beginning to develop nuclear technology we believed that they were just being wary, due to the recent nuclear explosion in India that was claimed to be a “non-violent ” in 1974. Though this may be so, today, we as a whole feel very different about Iran and have contributed in many United Nations meetings to work toward the prevention of their nuclear development. What the U.N and we in particular are really pushing for is to have a dialogue with Iran and the IAEA, which proves to be very difficult. This is due to Iran denying that it has no intentions on using any of their nuclear technology for weapons, therefore not feeling the need to have dialogue with the UN. We, along with the United Nations, have become suspicious that this statement is false considering in the past few years Iran has gained the use of 20% more uranium than what is needing to run plants for nuclear electricity. There have also been many other factors, such as a smaller amount of nuclear electricity being developed for Iran then what they previously seemed interested in when signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Currently we are deep into Iran's nuclear problem and recently, in a 2012 United Nation meeting, a document concerning the before mentioned meeting showed our representative stress that Iran’s military, nuclear and missile ambitions is a growing threat. This is because Iran has been defying the IAEA Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty by conduction a “secret” program to develop nuclear technology. This causes many UN members to be on constant edge because if Iran's program gets too out of hand for the IAEA to handle who's to say the other countries, who pose nuclear threat will not do the same?

With this in mind we are determined to stick with the United Nations and the IAEA to work toward stopping the Iranian's use of nuclear weapons. It is clear to both we and other nations that Iran may most definitely be conducting the development of nuclear weapons behind their cover up of using nuclear technology solely for electricity. We have also been brought to the attention that Iran will not stop it's nuclear program just because the IAEA has told them to do so and that drastic measure must be implanted to at least hold a productive dialogue with them, which we are more than willing to help conduct.

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