Thelasian wrote:
Sure, it "could" but so could my pocket calculator.

If you're going to make specious arguments that LWRs (and your pocket
calculator) can be considered as dual-use technology, then, once again,
you don't know the internationally accepted definitions of "dual use"
(go read the IAEA's site, for example) and there's no use arguing with
ignorance.

And because it is Iran's fundamental right to have access to the technology.

If you believe in this statement, then I believe in the statement that
it is the right and responsibility of the rest of the world - through
the UN and the IAEA, in this case - to deny that 'right' to countries
believed to be too unstable (which, yes, I'd like to see NK added - but
the example of NK just goes to prove the point it's far easier to stop a
country before it has any than after). And note from my original post
that France, Germany & Britian are unhappy, not just the USA, so no US
bashing in this case.

And might I inquire from what source or document this "fundamental
right" derives? I'm not aware of anything in the UN documents that
provides this "fundamental right" to all countries.

A country's "fundamental rights" end where it's actions or planned
actions concerns its neighboring countries (more broadly speaking in
this day and age than past) enough for them to act to counter it.

See, for example: "It has been argued here that Article 51 of the
Charter of the UN includes the customary international law right of
anticipatory self-defense... Israel acted within those limits... This
particular use of force constituted an appropriate application of the
right of anticipatory self-defense in international law." from
"Self-Defense in International Law: The Israeli Raid on the Iraqi
Nuclear Reactor", Timothy L. H. McCormack, Palgrave Macmillan, 1996, p.
302.