Can Iran be persuaded to abandon its clandestine nuclear-weapons program in favour of civilian nuclear technology, asks Dr Sharif Shuja. If not, will Iran’s powerful friends, Russia and China, be prepared to support the United States in imposing economic sanctions on Iran, thereby jeopardising hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts and investments?Today, many would argue that the role of nuclear weapons is of decreasing relevance in international security, and that states possessing them a…
