Reply #6: How, specifically, has Iran violated the NPT?

[AverageJoe5]

Article IV of the NPT states, explicitly, that Nothing in the Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination. What Iran is doing is in conformity with this requirement of the NPT.

Article IV also states that parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall co-operate with other States to further the development of the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world. This requirement calls on the "big powers" to assist Iran in developing it's nuclear program; instead, they are trying to thwart Iran's nuclear program. So it's the "big powers" which are violating the NPT.