Today the Bush administration has warned the Iranian regime that they face the threat of UN Action for resuming nuclear activity. The warning was issued by White House spokesman Scott McClellan, a call that has been repeated, though more timidly, by the EU3 and by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Iran has made it clear that it sees nuclear power as a basic right of a sovereign nation. At the same time the Iranians persist in advancing the fantasy that their nuclear research is solely for peaceful purposes. Such a premise is nonsense in the highest sense. Iran is one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum and natural gas, yet we are to accept the proposition that they are willing to invest billions in new sources of energy?

For over 2 years the EU (and by extension, the United States) have been talking with the Iranians, attempting to persuade the tyrannical regime no to advance its nuclear ambitions any further and to no avail. The Iranians consistently thumb their nose at the suggestion that they give up “peaceful” nuclear energy. The Europeans have offered concession after concession further entrenching the perception that the Europeans are negotiating from a vantage point of weakness. Now Scott McClellan says, “We'll continue talking,” when asked if Iran’s latest move would force the hand of the Security Council. Translation: “we will do nothing.”

In reality a threat of UN action is meaningless, just as it was with Iraq. UN action toward Iraq languished for over 12 years and when events finally came to a head several key members including France and Russia balked at taking any action whatsoever, just as they would do in a showdown with Iran. Russia a major partner with Iran, who is perhaps chiefly responsible for Iran’s advance in nuclear technology, would most certainly object to UN action and indeed, several EU nations are major Iranian trading partners as well and can’t be expected to offer much in the way of pressure on the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, the Bush administration stubbornly refuses to directly engage Iran, thereby relying on the EU’s negotiating prowess, which leaves much to be desired to say the least.

In the end the result is all but assured, Iran, a nation committed to global Islamic domination, a worldwide sponsor of terrorism, will not only develop nuclear power, but nuclear weapons as well and shortly thereafter, those weapons will be proliferated across the militant Islamic world…depend upon it.
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