OK, NOW I'M CONFUSED

Sarkozy...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he wants international pressure stepped up on Iran over its refusal to halt its contested nuclear programme, in an interview published Sunday....

...vs. Sarkozy:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered Saudi Arabia help in developing peaceful nuclear energy at the start of a Gulf tour he hopes will secure billions of dollars in contracts for French firms.

After Saudi Arabia, where he met King Abdullah, Sarkozy was to go to Qatar and then on to the United Arab Emirates where he will sign a nuclear cooperation agreement on Tuesday.

...Sarkozy, who has already signed civilian nuclear deals with Arab oil producers Algeria and Libya, has made no secret of his view that all states have a right to atomic power....

OK, sure -- Iran does still have some answering to do to the UN, and the others don't. But isn't the anti-Iran propaganda war in America largely built on the premise that it's absurd to think Iran could want nuclear technology in order to generate energy, given the fact that it has so much oil? So, why doesn't that argument apply to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, and the UAE?