Iran's Nuclear Threat

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 4 March 08 | ZALMAY KHALILZAD

[LSUfan]

The United Nations Security Council has passed another resolution concerning Iran because its nuclear program is an unacceptable threat. Iran's violations of Security Council resolutions not only continue, but are deepening. Instead of suspending its proliferation-sensitive activities as the council has required, Iran is dramatically expanding the number of operating centrifuges and developing a new generation of centrifuges, testing one of them with nuclear fuel.

Once again, Iran has not made the choice the world had hoped for; once again, the Security Council has no choice but to act. At stake is the security of a vital region of the world, and the credibility of the Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as they seek to hold Iran to its nonproliferation commitments.

[LSUfan]

Closing paragraph of the article:

"The message from the U.S. to the people of Iran is that America respects you and your great country. We want Iran to be a full partner in the international community. And as President Bush has said, if Iran respects its international obligations, it will have no better friend than the United States of America."

I don't respect the radical Islamist theocracy in Iran. And even if they were to live up to their "international obligations" around their nuke program (which will never happen), I can't get past their sponsorship of Hezbollah, Al Qaeda (YES, Al Qaeda), HAMAS and insurgents in Iran and Afghanistan. Iran wages war on the West and the US in particular...and we sit back and let them for the most part...have for decades...

[Brilliant]

I thought the NIE determined that they’d abandoned their quest for the nuclear bomb?

[nuconvert]

You’re setting your sites too low. When Pres. Bush said, “ if Iran respects its international obligations...” he was referring to ALL obligations, including anti-terrorism, and human rights.
In order for Iran to comply with ALL of those, it would be the end of this regime, hence allowing Iran the opportunity to have “ have no better friend than the United States of America” as it did before Jimmy Carter.

[uptoolate]

[mkjessup]

"The message from the U.S. to the people of Iran is that America respects you and your great country. We want Iran to be a full partner in the international community."

Too bad that asswipe Jimmy Carter couldn't have embraced such a policy back in '77 - '78. He's the reason Iran has become an enemy of the United States and a daily threat to Israel.