Clinton's nuclear talking points

Addressing Iran on NBC's Meet the Press, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Iran does “not have the right to have the full enrichment and reprocessing cycle under your control.” However, whether Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has a right to enrich depends on whom you ask.  Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, said, “Iran says the NPT gives it the unconditional right to enrichment for peaceful purposes. But no, that's not true. There are conditions on conforming to other aspects of the treaty. Clinton was reasserting the U.S. position held under the Bush and Obama administration that Iran's access to nuclear technology is conditioned on its other obligations.”