> Iran signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Therefore by creating
> the infrastructure to be able to build nuclear weapons, its violating
> the treaty provisions.
Only if the infrastructure is just for creating nuclear weapons. A dual-use infrastructure, and that is exactly what an enrichment facility is, is allowed. In fact, the article even says:
"Iran, as a signatory of the nonproliferation treaty, has the right to convert uranium into a gas and to concentrate the fissile 235 isotope in that gas with high-speed centrifuges, a process known as enrichment."
Many countries that have signed the non proliferation treaty have enrichment facilities: Japan, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands (and we 'exported' the technology to Pakistan and presumably Iran), Brazil, Spain, Belgium etc.
Jochem
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