IRAN REJECTS NUCLEAR DEAL

From CNN...

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said the new draft resolution put forward by three European powers at a key meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog is still unacceptable despite recent changes, Iran's state-run news agency reported Saturday.
"There has been a good deal of changes in the draft resolution, but still, there are points that are not acceptable to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and run contrary to the Paris agreement," Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said, according to IRNA. Kharazi also rejected reports from Vienna that Iran agreed to give up the use of 20 centrifuges as part of a plan to freeze its nuclear program entirely.

Why is it so difficult for so many people to believe that a government run by a bunch of religious fanatics is unwilling to give up it's pursuit of nuclear weapons? For that matter, why is it so difficult to believe that ANY government which feels it is surrounded by enemies would be unwilling to give up it's nuclear weapons? The pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation was, in my estimation, always fated to succeed only with those governments which believe they are not threatened by any existential threat (Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, for example) and to fail with those who believe otherwise (Iran, North Korea). Only two nations that I know of have given away their nuclear programs voluntarily...Libya, after it became clear to Colonel Khaddafi that he might go the way of Saddam Hussein, and South Africa after it's Apartheid government ceased to exist (thus, nuclear weapons failed to preserve it's existence and, thereafter, became irrelevant). The Iranian Mullahs have every incentive to keep their program going, in secret if possible, in public if necessary.