Final Blog Post: Iranian Nuclear Talks

Iranian Nuclear Talks are just one of the long history of disputes between the Western World and the Middle East. It all started with the United States being concerned about Iran's intentions behind creating nuclear energy. They believe that Iran holding this power poses danger to the rest of the world. This worry comes from the constant tense relationship between Iran and the UN for many, many years. The United States, along with many other Western countries, have been fighting the creation of nuclear plants for the past 60 some years. The United States placed strict sanctions against Iran with regards to trade and due to this Iran decided that they must negotiate an agreement in order to sustain themselves economically. Recently, Iran has come to some terms of agreement with the United States that they will restrict their use of nuclear energy and eliminate certain plants they have in place. The UN decided to lift some of the trade restrictions held against Iran although they are willing to put them immediately back in place if Iran proves to not hold true to the agreement. 

Our research was done through browsing several different news articles in order to gather as much information as we can on the situation. It was also helpful to look at historical time lines of the matter as we needed to know the background on Iran and the UN's relationship before understanding the current conflict. It was obvious that most news websites had seriously biased opinions on Iran. Because of this, it was necessary to do research on several different news stations in order to compare and contrast the different opinions. Working with a group was also helpful in this regard as we could understand the various opinions on the matter within ourselves. No one is ever going to have the same opinion as anyone else and if they did, the world would be a very close-minded place. It is important to always look at different sides of a situation in  order to truly comprehend the facts surrounding it. I don't think using any form of media would have given us any more or less of a biased opinion. There is no such thing as media that isn't biased. 

I think the most that I learned from this project was seeing all the different countries perspectives on the matter of Iran. We were able to see the United States perspective, Russia's perspective, Iran's perspective, Israel's perspectives, Europe's perspective, etc. It is obvious that Israel and the United States are the most worried about Iran possessing nuclear power in that they believe it will affect them the most. It is difficult to write a blog post only on the facts of a situation because "facts" are relative. The research was difficult due to the varying opinions on where each country stood in the matter. Working in groups for a blog is especially difficult in the same way it is difficult to write a paper in a group setting. It is not always possible to always meet in order to write a blog post especially when there are so many different news articles and websites. I enjoyed learning about the Iranian nuclear talks though, because I was previously somewhat uninformed on the situation. This is one of the most important disputes in the history of the world and to understand it better really helped me to understand why countries feel the way they do about certain things.