If Iran complies with the IAEA they will get their nuclear power. It has nothing to do with pro or anti US.
About New Zealand. I never heard that Reagan considered that a threat to world peace. The problem with the NZ government was twofold.
One : It takes months of logistical work before ships can dock in harbors. Water and food supplies are bought well in advance. An AC has about 4.500 people on board. You can't go suddenly to the local supermarket and buy a weekly food supply. The NZ move caused mayor rerouting for ships that were to visit NZ. Contracts had to be canceled with propably court battles.
Second: Nuclear powered vessels were not welcome in NZ harbors, but defending it seems not to be a problem. Go to another port and fight for us from there! Nice allies I would say.
Yes but much like the Iraqi WMD threat it is impossible for Iran to meet the IAEA requirements because the goalposts keep moving, I am prepared to bet that Iran can have nuclear power as long as it turns over control of that program to either America, China or Russia and it is quite clear that they want to be self-sufficient and good on them for that.
As for the rest, New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy caused no "major" re-routing of ships or anything else for that matter, one ship the destroyer USS Buchanan was refused entry because the US would not declare to the New Zealand government whether it was carrying nuclear weapons or not.
However it was also realised that the Buchanan was selected specifically to test the legislation as recorded on the Buchanan's own website...
1985 - In early 1985, the Reagan administration selected the Buchanan, with its Nuclear Capable ASROC, to test the new Non-nuclear policies instituted by New Zealand. Permission to enter was denied causing the US State Department to cut off all intelligence to the Kiwis and canceled all future military maneuvers. America also would no longer sit at the ANZUS table with Kiwi reps.
http://www.uss-buchanan-ddg14.org/
So given that the US could have sent any number of ships to New Zealand that would have met our entry requirements they chose one they knew wouldn't in order to create confrontation I think we have every right to return your comment by saying some ally they were.
Here is an interesting write up...
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...-zealand-antinuclear-policies-soviet-presence
Seems the Soviets were going to get us but they seem to have gotten lost on the way.
Iran is not a threat to world peace, the Iranian regime is. It is a religious fanatic regime that do not allow their people to have freedom. They brutally crushed a demand for more democracy. They are doing the same in Syria. They want the destruction of Israel although that country never talked about the destruction of Iran. In Lebanon they armed Hezbollah (in defiance of a UN resolution) with thousands of missiles instead of the Lebanese army to defend itself. They don't care about UN counsil resolutions, which are enforcable and they wonder why they are getting sanctions. They threatened to close a vital international waterway. They shut down traffic devices on their tankers in defiance of international sea law. And I can go on and on.
Today the US is the only super power. They have the responsability to watch over the international trade lines which are very important to the global trade system. So, every country that uses those trade lines benefit from US power.
If you think that the world would be better of without a mighty US, think again.
So who is the US arming?
You don't see the hypocrisy in a nation that makes trillions in arms sales many of which end up in the hands of nefarious and dodgy regimes who are hell bent on suppressing their own populations through the use of those weapons getting all upset about another nation doing exactly the same thing?
Yes I know we are right they are wrong we don't need to look at our actions only accept that what we do we do for the benefit of others and would never put our own best interests above those of someone else while they are all dodgy, evil doers out to control the world.