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Iran's Big Lie

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:20 PM PT

 

Axis Of Evil: Iran has turned over to the United Nations its blueprints for making a nuclear warhead. That's not a surprise ? and neither is the U.N.'s incompetence in dealing with the threat.

 

Related Topics: Iran | Global War On Terror

 

First, the existence of the blueprints ? which outline how uranium is molded into the shape of warheads ? is confirmation that Tehran's nuclear ambitions are not just for "peaceful" purposes.

 

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's constant insistence that Iran's nuclear program is intended only to provide atomic energy for his oil-rich nation has been exposed as the lie.

 

Second, it's worrisome to find that the U.N. knew two years ago that Iran had the documents and is getting them only when the Islamist regime wanted to turn them over. More evidence the organization is virtually useless and may actually be counterproductive.

 

The AP coverage of this event was, unintentionally perhaps, telling when it revealed that the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency "stumbled upon" the plans "among a batch of other documents during its examination of suspect Iranian nuclear activities" in 2005. The IAEA has not exactly been the most attentive or rigorous watchdog of nuclear activities.

 

Think of North Korea, which was was able to restart its nuclear weapons program under the sleepy eyes of the U.N.

 

And of Saddam Hussein, who never feared the IAEA would actually uncover his plans to build weapons of mass destruction or punish him if he did. He knew the effete U.N. would treat him with deference, as it does any dictator who either rules from the left or is identifiably anti-American.

 

Saddam also had too many corrupt U.N. officials in his pocket through that organization's oil-for-food program to worry that it would actually punish him.

 

There's speculation that Iran gave up the blueprints ? turned over to the IAEA last week in Vienna ? in hopes that it will avoid further U.N. sanctions. If so, it's more of a ruse than any indication of cooperation.

 

Tehran has had years to comply with U.N. demands but has shown little willingness to do so. Why begin now? Like Saddam, Ahmadinejad and the ruling mullahs have no fear of the U.N.

 

In a not-surprising show of disrespect to the world, the regime claims it didn't seek the blueprints but merely found the papers among other items it bought decades ago when it was making black market purchases of nuclear equipment. (Maybe some of the Rose law firm files or Sen. Hillary Clinton's locked-away White House papers were in there, as well.)

 

No serious adult could be fooled by such a childish account.

 

Tehran's weak explanation might have a ring of plausibility if not for the recent history that provides a rich context in which to judge the regime's actions.

 

Had it not refused U.N. requests to copy or look at the plans for two years, and if it hadn't blocked the IAEA from talking to at least two high-ranking Iranian nuclear officials it suspected of being involved in a weapons program, then maybe it could have been taken at its word. But it didn't and it can't.

 

The U.N. should not reward Tehran for turning over papers that it should have never had by going easy on future sanctions. But that possibility exists. Given that, it's up to Western leaders still serious about preserving our culture ? as well as our lives ? to pressure the regime into dismantling its burgeoning nuclear program.

 

Preferably, it will be done without military intervention. But that option, no matter how unpopular, should never be ruled out. Fanatic leaders such as those in Tehran are not often given to diplomacy.

 

Force is the language they understand ? which is exactly why they had the blueprints for a nuclear warhead in the first place.

Holy sh*t, bombshell of the decade!

 

Nice unbiased report there. Just for the future, can we make sure not to post editorials and columns as news?

Holy sh*t, bombshell of the decade!

 

Nice unbiased report there. Just for the future, can we make sure not to post editorials and columns as news?

Where did I say this was unbiased or not editorial?

Just reading a few lines shows how biased it is. If you didn't see that by the time the author took a shot at Hillary Clinton for no reason, I would get your eyes checked.

 

If this is true, how come this isn't major news? I have never heard a word about this.

Holy sh*t, bombshell of the decade!

 

Nice unbiased report there. Just for the future, can we make sure not to post editorials and columns as news?

Where did I say this was unbiased or not editorial?

 

Nowhere. Doesn't mean you weren't trying to pass it off as such.

Of course Iran is working on the bomb...but North Korea HAS the bomb and are testing delivery systems to hit America...and WE essentially gave them the LREs (reactors).

 

Something stinks horribly.

let's bomb the hell out of iran, invade them, and try to bring democracy to that country and part of the world. they'll be dancing in the streets when we take out the regime.

let's bomb the hell out of iran, invade them, and try to bring democracy to that country and part of the world. they'll be dancing in the streets when we take out the regime.

I'm assuming that was sarcasm...

 

:lol