Dealing with Iran

Consider the following excerpts from a NYT article dated October 29, 2009.

Mr. Ahmadinejad also suggested that Iran expected Western countries to honor payments for nuclear assistance it made before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran paid more than $1 billion to help build a French reactor in return for access to that reactor’s fuel. After the revolution, France reneged on the contract. “We have nuclear contracts,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said. “It has been 30 years, we have paid for them. Such agreements must be fulfilled.”

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If Iran’s stated estimate of its stockpile of nuclear fuel is accurate, the deal that was negotiated in Vienna would leave the country with too little fuel to manufacture a weapon until the stockpile was replenished with additional fuel, which Iran is producing in violation of UN Security Council mandates.

So, while Iran's president violates a mandate from the UN, it wants the West to honor its contract with Iran made 30+ years ago. Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black or payback for the West's breach of contract?