Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives

The articles that I have picked are about the nuclear talks that Iran has been having with the United States of America, Russia, Britain, France, Germany and the E.U. (European Union). The talks began in July 2009 and other countries had decided that they should not interfere in what is happening in other countries. In 2009, Iran blamed everything on the western countries and they all decided that they should leave this talk after Iran had said things about the other countries. Many of the people in Iran thought that this was the right thing to do (agree with Iran). It was out of the western countries to say anything since they are sitting in Iran and if something goes wrong, they will be blamed for it around the globe. In 2010, Iran convinced other countries that it would like to continue the talk and tell them how they are feeling about what they said in 2009. And this is what happened in the two articles I read:
This article is telling the reader how Iran will not be backing out on their nuclear powers and will continue to make the nuclear weapons which are used by the home country and exported to the other countries who buy nuclear weapons from them to protect their own country. The 6 countries that are involved in this say that Iran will not do anything that will harm their country and think before using the nuclear weapons. Last week a senior scientist who was involved in the making of these weapons died in bomb attack on his car. The western countries say that they had nothing to do with this and should not be blamed about what happened to one of Iranians. They say that whatever happens in their country is planned by the people in their own country and that other countries have nothing to do with what is going on in the country.  The west wants to talk about enrichment in uranium and how it should be distributed but Iran disagrees with this and the story will continue. As of now, “Iran has remained defiant in the face of the sanctions, and Sunday's announcement on yellowcake production will do little to ease the Western concerns over the deadlock.”
This article is telling the reader how the west thinks that Iran was acting really calmly and did not get aggressive about any of their points. It says that previously Iran had said that they did not want to talk about this topic anymore with anyone and the west had agreed with their idea but in December, Iran itself mentioned that they wanted to have a talk with these countries about there nuclear powers. The west was shocked that Iran had finally made a decision to talk about this. This article mentioned how “Iran has insisted its nuclear program is only for civilian purposes”, whereas in the first article, it says that they did not want to share any of their nuclear powers with the other countries in the world and wanted to keep it all to themselves. There are two very different perspectives in the news. The first one is from the perspectives of the Iranians and this article is the perspective of the other countries which are not Muslim. The article from the west mentions says that Jalili said that the assassination has cast a gloom over the talks, whereas in the first article, it is completely blaming it on the west and this article means that they are not blaming it on the west but they are saying that it happened because these talks were planned and people did not want this to happen. 

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