why Iran has the right to develop nuclear energy

For nearly three years now I've had to endure the horrible politics of the west towards Iran's nuclear program, never have I heard so much hypocrisy and so much lies put out on behalf of the west, I don't know what I should have expected considering the fact that the US fell out with Iran because of it's own people rising up and taking control over the dictator that was the Shah, before that however they were fine with Iran developing nuclear power:



Since of course it was mining it's oil resources away from the people and building up it's military and army to use as a buffer against the Soviet Union spreading into the Middle East and disrupting American oil interests.

However these days Iran has been described as an Axis of Evil and threatened by the United States who are still sore over the revolution and Israel who wants to keep their nuclear supremacy in the Middle East and want Iran devoid of any form of nuclear energy including nuclear power!

And they've on numerous occasions threatened to destroy these sites including Natanz (top and bottom pictures) and the Bushehr uranium enrichment program in a city of the same name.

An Israeli strike (nuclear or conventional) to destroy this one site would result in the radioactive poisoning of residents of countries across the gulf such as the United Arab Emirates or Oman, not only that but it could render Bushehr a ghost town and several people in it's 165,000 populace dead!

Hasn't the horrible catastrophe at Chernobyl not thought anyone anything?

And apart from that if Israel (very likely) fire the first shots at nuclear power stations such as these Iran have threatened in turn to strike back in this case at Israeli nuclear weapon sites that the world learned existed back in 1986 thanks to the brave Mordechai Vanunu who revealed to the world Israel's nuclear secrets such as the site he worked at Dimona.


Anti-aircraft gun at Natanz

Bottom Line: Iran like any other country in the world has the right to develop nuclear energy for it's people since they're moving on knowing that (unlike Saudi Arabia) that one day their oil will run out and preparing for the future, they should not be intimated by the threat of being preemptively attacked and have every right to defend themselves and their region against western attackers!