Under international law Iran was free to make whatever nuclear energy it wanted anyway. Most countries do just that. The only problem with Iran is that the US colony in the Middle East, Israel wants any excuse to bomb them whence all the crazy propaganda about nukes. The US has nukes, Israel has illegal nukes, the UK has nukes, but Iran wants nuclear power and that is tantamount to nukes? There is no rational discussion of the issue. It's crazy land. 'Oh, but dem Muslims, dey can't have dem nukes. They's crazy, ya know!'. Sure, they are. They invade all their neighbors and non neighbors, right? The arrogance of putting sanctions on Iran was just astounding and the hubris coming out of Washington shockingly bad.