The West is currently using the pretext of security concerns in an attempt to control the nuclear activities of the countries of the global South.

Optimizing energy production is essential for the economic and social development of every country.

Although the power of the atom has been used for evil purposes, the importance of nuclear energy in the modern world is acknowledged by everyone. The only challenge is accessing this technology and the necessary raw materials.

However, access to this energy is quite unbalanced.

The United States has over 100 nuclear power plants, but developing countries will not be able to reach such a level in even 15 years.

France has 59 nuclear power plants that provide 78.5 percent of the country’s electricity.

Britain, Canada, Japan, Russia, and China are also major players in the nuclear industry.

Meanwhile, Iran and most other developing countries still produce none of their required electricity through the use of nuclear power plants.

The United States and its Western allies dominate the world’s nuclear industry but still use the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Security Council as tools to control the nuclear activities of other countries.

Iran’s nuclear dossier is a case in point. Following the failure of the UN Security Council’s foreign ministers to achieve a consensus in their meeting in New York on May 5, the 5+1 group decided to encourage Iran to terminate its nuclear fuel cycle program.

Iran has taken every measure necessary to make its nuclear activities transparent, but the major nuclear powers are still pressuring the Islamic Republic to give up the most important part of its nuclear program.

Some countries say that since Iran possesses abundant fossil fuel reserves, there is no need for it to continue its nuclear activities for energy production and conclude that Iran must be clandestinely attempting to produce nuclear weapons.

Yet, as a profitable energy source that does not produce greenhouse gases, nuclear energy is clearly Iran’s best economic bet for the future. Thus, developing countries need to develop nuclear technology despite Western countries’ blackmail.

Iran’s insistence on developing nuclear technology will not only make it independent of Western countries but could also prevent capital flight.

It is unjust for the developed world to try to restrict the technological advancement of the Third World.

After 9/11, Western countries have focused on security more than ever before. After the collapse of the Cold War system, terrorism was made the new bogeyman, which the West is using as a pretext to control the nuclear activities of Iran and other Third World countries in order to further their interests and monopolize modern technology.