Nuclear ban treaty

Seventy-five years after their destructive power was first unleashed, nuclear weapons are about to be officially and explicitly prohibited by international law. For the average person, it may come as a surprise to know that nuclear weapons, dreadful as they are, weren’t already outlawed. But for the vast majority of nuclear weapons experts, the ban will arrive far sooner than expected.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, informally called the ban treaty, was adopted with the approval of 122 countries at the United Nations in July 2017. It forbids anything and everything related to nuclear weapons, including their development and possession. It also obligates countries that join it to provide support to the victims of nuclear weapons testing and use, and to undertake environmental cleanup.
But to enter into legal force, the treaty needed more than just a vote at the United Nations; it needed ratification by at least 50 countries. It achieved that mark on October 24, after Jamaica, Nauru, and Honduras deposited the 48th, 49th, and 50th ratifications in rapid succession over the course of several days. Accordingly, the treaty will become official international law 90 days hence, on January 22, 2021.

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Their facilities were being regularly inspected and monitored by the IAEA, so yes, it was being enforced. Now what do you have? They are no longer complying, enriching beyond the percentage necessary for power plant/medical use and, given the current crippling sanctions, will have every incentive to build weapons, which Israel will never allow by destroying all the facilities it can with whatever force necessary. And you think this is a better solution? Apparently certain people didn’t learn enough history from WWI to see what happens when you force a potentially belligerent and proud country to it’s knees with crippling sanctions. Those sort of zero sum games never work for long unless you’re OK with them leading to war.

Their facilities were being regularly inspected and monitored by the IAEA, so yes, it was being enforced. Now what do you have?
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Some of their facilities were being inspected. Iran refused on some of their most secret sites.
That was the problem.
The argument that Iran is enriching uranium only to peaceful fissile levels is the wrong way to look at it.
To that level is most of the work.
So Iran allows us to inspect the 'peaceful' process but not the high enriched material.
Here is a blurb..
https://tutorials.nti.org/nuclear-101/uranium-enrichment/
Starting out with natural uranium, a facility with nearly 6,000 early-generation centrifuges could produce about 40 kg of weapons-grade uranium within a year. [3]
If material pre-enriched to 3.5% uranium-235 is used, a facility with the same capacity could produce about 180 kg of weapons-grade uranium per year. [4]