On Saturday, the five members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - including Germany, met in New York to discuss the impending issue of Iran's current nuclear activity. Though Iran maintains that their nuclear activity is merely for civil service purposes, the secrecy of their activity raises some concern with the UN Security Council. The Council has planned on a dual track policy involving pressure and and engagement to resolve the matter. However, Iran has been less than cooperative with the intervention of the Security Council. Iran has been ignoring the UN and their offered solutions, and the Security Council is running out of ideas on ways to deal with the state. The UN has considered sanctions, but they are not 100% sure how effective the sanctions would be. The foreboding activity of Tehran still lingers after the long meeting in New York.
This is the second article I have read about Iran's nuclear activity. The first article, which revealed Iran's secret activities, suggested that Iran is an unstable state facing the many pressure of globalization -- pressures it is not ready to deal with. The secret nuclear activity demonstrates Iran's inability to properly handle globalization and lack of stability as a democracy. Though Iran has the rudiments of democracy in place, it seems to be slowly cracking under the pressure of what being a democracy really means. In this article, we see that Iran is ignoring the Security Council and their ideas and deals. This act shows that Iran is uncooperative and is pushing away globalization. A true democracy does not push away globalization. A true democracy tries to cooperate well with other nations and does not act as if everyone is "out to get them." Thus, Iran cannot be considered a stable, democratic state. The nuclear issue in Iran is only one of many current events that reveals the state's instability.
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