Details here, but you should all appreciate this paragraph from Hassan Rowhani:
As for the question of what we can do now that they all disagree with our having the fuel cycle, I submit to you that we require an opportunity, time to be able to act on our capability in this area. That is, if one day we are able to complete the fuel cycle and the world sees that it has no choice, that we do possess the technology, then the situation will be different. The world did not want Pakistan to have an atomic bomb or Brazil to have the fuel cycle, but Pakistan built its bomb and Brazil has its fuel cycle, and the world started to work with them. Our problem is that we have not achieved either one, but we are standing at the threshold. As for building the atomic bomb, we never wanted to move in that direction and we have not yet completely developed our fuel cycle capability. This also happens to be our main problem.
I await the love notes…
Rowhani is correct. The “rules” have not been applied uniformly from the get go and based on the North Korea example, Iran would be tempted to go pedal to metal and talk from a position of strength. Unfortunately, the nonproliferation advocates have paid less attention to the demand side than they have to the supply side. Both are important.