12 posts tagged “nuke wmd”
Iran is having a Presidential election today June 12, 2009. Apparently the voters have been stoked by public debates between the candidates. It seems the top two candidates are the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the challenger with the most publicity (there are others) is Mir Hossein Mousavi. At this point it appears this election may have the largest turn out since Ruhollah Khomeini booted the Shah of Iran off the throne.
The Iranian political scene must be tense for both President Ahmadinejad and Mousavi have declared they are outright winners of this election. If there is any honesty in this election it appears politics are politics like anywhere else in the world. The duo declaration could mean both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are doing a little dirty electioneering to sway the voters who been given and extended time to vote since the voters are still streaming in to get in line to vote.
Does it matter who wins this Iranian Presidential election? I am guessing NO. For no matter who wins the Big Dog is still Supreme Leader (if it was Germany it would be Der Fuhrer) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Indeed the candidates were selected with the rubber stamp of Khamenei approval. There was no primary or caucus process to be a candidate for President in Iran.
So Americans wary of Jew-hating, Twelver-Shi’ite, regional hegemon Ahmadinejad may get excited about an Ahmadinejad loss, I don’t think it will change anything about Supreme Leader’s Islamic goals for Iran. In fact Supreme Leader may benefit in a geopolitical stall tactic by removing Ahmadinejad as the public face of Iran.
Mike Evans of the Jerusalem Prayer Team has some insight on this Iranian election. And yes I am also including the obligatory pitch for funds for JPT along side of the insight.
JRH 6/12/09
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Nuclear proliferation will continue under Iran's new president
Mike Evans
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Elections are being held in Iran today. Even if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should lose his position as president, there will be few if any changes in the government. Actual policy is decided by cleric and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Certainly, Iran's position regarding nuclear proliferation will not change as it, too, is dictated by Khamenei. Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and president of the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs Dore Gold confirmed this: "The key decisions in the nuclear field are taken by the spiritual leader Khamenei, so it doesn't matter who is elected president. All of the candidates support continuing the nuclear program."
The Jewish state considers Iran's nuclear bid a very real threat given that Ahmadinejad has spent four years in office calling for Israel's destruction. He has vowed to "wipe Israel off the map."
According to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Iran is the greatest threat to Israel since the nation was founded in 1948. This is true not only regarding the Islamic republic's atomic aspirations, but also due to the fact that Iran funds, trains, and arms the fanatical groups that surround Israel - Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Both groups have drawn Israel into wars to defend its citizens. Netanyahu has not ruled out a military strike against Iran's nuclear sites. He said after a meeting with President Obama in May, "Israel reserves its right to defend itself."
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that even the Obama administration was becoming more wary of Iran's nuclear program. He indicated that the U.S. and Israel share the same concerns regarding Iran's reluctance to even discuss its nuclear pursuits.
Iranian affairs expert Menashe Amir believes a more moderate leader in Tehran such as Ahmadinejad's opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi may prove even more detrimental to efforts to stop Iran's nuclear pursuits. Mr. Amir feels that "If the real policy remains the same but the tone becomes softer, Iran would be able to dupe the West while it continues to develop its nuclear program, and plot in Afghanistan, Pakistan and prevent peace between Israel and the Palestinians."
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The Highway to Evil Iran
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© June 12, 2009
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Nuclear proliferation will continue under Iran's new president
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In America the word “axis” has often been politically charged to refer to evil nations. Politically an “axis” seems to involve three nations. For example in WWII the Allies (the victors) battled the Axis powers; viz. the Nazi Third Reich, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
Most would consider the Axis powers as heinously evil with unwilling Italians be ruled by a Fascist government. Incidentally I say “unwilling” because when it became apparent to the Italian citizens that Benito Mussolini was a mere puppet of Hitler’s Third Reich and Italy was paying dearly with their blood in a losing war; an Italian mob got a hold of Il Duce and lynched him in a public square.
Hitler tried to exterminate all people he considered a stain to the Master Aryan Race. This included as many Jews as the Nazis could find.
Imperial Japan led by dictator Tojo in the name of Emperor Hirohito committed horrendous atrocities against Chinese, Koreans and POW’s. Millions died.
Though Il Duce was a puppet, he did his share of atrocities. One of the atrocities was the invasion of Ethiopia utilizing poison gas to subdue the nation.
President Bush had labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an Axis of Evil.
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was a genocidal and authoritarian in ways that no doubt would receive a hat tip Der Fuehrer or Comrade Stalin.
The revolutionary Mullahs of Iran purged the nation of all that may have opposed the psycho-Shi’ites grip on power.
North Korea’s Communist family cult regime mask’s their despotism with Communism; however the people are starved, abused, murdered and propagandized resulting in the Kim family retaining absolute rule.
The so-called humanitarian organization that is supposed to battle the Axis of Evil global atrocities known as the United Nations more often than not serves to protect the evil in nations rather than condemn them. For example the United Nations spends volumes on paper condemning the only democratic-minded nation in the Middle East in the sliver of land known as Israel. Yet the amount of condemnation of the brutal practices associated with Islam goes largely unreported. In fact the U.N. is pushing a global agenda to make it against International Law to criticize acts of Islam while looking the other way as Mohammedans do their best to slaughter Jews. Indeed there is nary a U.N. condemnation against the rising return of Jewish anti-Semitism that is emerging Western nations.
Iraq designs of regional hegemony were derailed by President G.W. Bush. Regardless of what you have heard about the lack of finding WMD in Iraq it is documented that huge amounts of yellow cake was transported from Iraq to Canada to keep out of Islamic terrorist hands and for Canada to use it for actual peaceful purposes. If you think psycho-Saddam would not have sought a way to turn yellow cake into some kind of weapon, then you should re-examine the genocide link above.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind (and Israel’s security apparatus) that Iran is enriching uranium to weapons grade for nuclear weapons. Yet the only thing the world does (sucking up to the U.N. style and oil worries) is write mass papers of condemnation thinking the ink on paper will stop a regime from following through on its very public statements of driving Israel into the sea.
Now Iran is watching with glee as North Korea successfully test detonated a nuclear weapon with the destructive scale that Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced at the end of WWII.
What was the global response to the Nuke detonation? President Barack Hussein Obama led the way in the usual scary tactic of unleashing a verbal attack that was more likely followed by some official paper with the Presidential Seal on it. I have not sought it out but I would be surprised if the U.N. in their faux position as protector of world peace also wasted some paper devoted to North Korea. In fact knowing that paper does nothing, even Red China denounced the Nuke detonation. O the poor trees. This could set back the Green Movement.
Caroline B. Glick writes about how North Korea’s Nuke detonation, exporting missile technology and the general sales of nuke information is actually an attack on Israel. Do you think that is far fetched? If you do then you are unaware of two psycho-regimes that are buddy in the exchange of weapons technology (no doubt for oil). North Korea and Iran are near kiss'in cousins.
Since it is evident that President Barack Hussein Obama may toss Israel’s National Security under the bus, what Israel have to loose to at least take a shot at Iran’s nuclear industry?
JRH 5/28/09
Judith Miller writes a rather succinct essay about North Korea’s quest to be a nuclear power. Miller’s conclusion is there is ONLY one nation on the globe capable of halting the insanity of a fully nuke armed North Korea. That nation is China.
JRH 5/26/09
North Korea has successfully test detonated an underground weaponized nuclear device.
President Barack Hussein Obama has termed this North Korean act:
President Barack Obama called the moves "blatant defiance" of the Security Council and a violation of international law that would only further isolate North Korea.
North Korea's claims "are a matter of grave concern to all nations," he said, calling for international action in a statement from Washington. "North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, as well as its ballistic missile program, constitute a threat to international peace and security." (Yahoo-AP)
So I have to wonder: What does President BHO intend to do about the nation that President GW called one of the axis of evil? As a memory refresher the axis of evil were originally Iraq, Iran and North Korea. The Iraq leg has been taken down perhaps to be replaced by a Syrian leg. Excerpts from Egypt’s Government Daily Al-Gumhouriyya show a moderate (so-called) view of Syria’s involvement with an axis of evil. The Arab view does not include non-Mohammedan North Korea but other possible Mohammedan nations supportive of Iran’s agenda. The key is that Syria is a leg of the axis of evil and that Iran is the puppet master.
So where is Iran getting a lot of its ballistic missile technology? That would be North Korea. If North Korea is building a ballistic nuclear missile system be assured that Iran is also.
President BHO’s condemnation of the North Korea test nuclear explosion implies that the United Nations will do something about the rogue nation. Will that happen?
It is unlikely! The United Nations is a toothless tiger that brings aid and comfort to autocracies (particularly Mohammedan autocracies) and condemns Western style democratic Republics for not towing the globalist dhimmitude of anti-Israel and anti-Americanism.
The only teeth the United Nations possesses is in the Security Council. In the Security Council the teeth are only shown when there is a unanimous agreement among the permanent members which include the autocracy of Red China and the transitional autocracy of Russia.
North Korea is a client state of Red China and of the formerly Leninist/Communist Russia. Presently the state of being a client is more toward the former than the latter.
Does President BHO really think that the Security Council will really do anything substantive to punish North Korea for breaking all sorts of treaties and international protocols? If President BHO believes that, he is a foreign policy moron.
The real global problem is that psycho North Korea actually is a nuclear deterrent for any nation let alone the toothless U.N. to do anything about North Korea’s global destabilization. North Korea has even warned that any direct action to stop its weapons grade nuclearization will be met with retribution that will first be aimed at South Korea.
So now North Korea is able to use nuclear extortion to bully its way to get nearly anything it wants knowing that a weak stomached fear of nuclear war and the mutually assured destruction (MAD) mentality will likely hamstring any real Western clout.
Since the psycho Communists of North Korea and the psycho Mohammedans of Iran are arms buddies, what kind of extortion will a nuclear armed WMD Iran use to encroach on hegemonic designs in the Middle East (including the destruction of Israel)?
JRH 5/25/09
Here is some information from one of the top dogs in Conspiracy news – Prison Planet. The news article is entitled, “As Israel rages, US plans for Iran war re-emerge.”
Now I enjoy reading Conspiracy news however this kind of news is often derived from hear-say sources. Thus the reliability may be questionable because the truth is either stretched or if the news is on track with the source, confirmation is difficult to impossible to establish. News from coming Conspiracy news sources either look brilliant with the “I told you so” or the News appears laughable if it defies logic or tends to turn out just plain wrong.
This Prison Planet story has Prime Minister Netanyahu informing President Obama that Israel will go it alone to attack Iran if need be. The reality is such a desperate attempt at self-preservation would be at best a suicide mission if it succeeded.
The conclusion of Prison Planet is that if Israel goes it alone a Middle East war would emerge (that very well could expand into a World War); thus Obama chooses to prepare for war with the emerging enemies.
Neither Prison Planet nor I could divide decisively who those enemies would be except for the certainty of Iran. Because Hamas and Hezbollah line up with Iran such a war would divide the loyalties of the region. My guess is the Saudi leadership will have to decide to join the USA and Israel against Iran. Not because Saudi Arabia loves either nation but because Wahhabis hate Iranian Shi’ites. It is doubtful that the Wahhabi Saudis could stomach being on an equal to subservient plain with Iran.
Then there is Iraq. Such a war would surely line-up the Iraqi Sunni and Kurds against the Iraqi Shi’ites thus at the very least splitting the nation in two or at the worst into three hostile nations of a former Iraq.
Turkey would probably join the USA and Israel against Iran but not with gusto. There seems to be an unreasonable Turkish hatred toward the current largest national group without a sovereign nation – the Kurds.
Syria would join Iran out of existential need. Yet remember Syria is ruled by the minority Alawite-Shi’ites over the majority Syrian Sunnis. I suspect Lebanon would totally cease to exist as it is turn to pieces between American, Israeli and Turkish militaries on one side and Hezbollah, Syrian and rogue Iranian National Guard on the other end. Lebanon’s existence would be decided by the victors at the end of the regional conflict.
Then there are the wild card nations of Egypt and Jordan. Both of those nation’s citizens have a HUGE amount of sympathy for the Arabs who designate themselves as Palestinians. The first sympathies of the rulers of those two nations would be to counter the hated Iranian hegemonic plans for the Middle East; however Mohammedan riots no doubt urged by the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) could mess up the governments of Egypt and Jordan neutralizing actual partnership with the USA to stay in power at their homes.
The current Afghan government would turn into a total puppet of the USA as the Taliban sympathetic populace will probably take up with the Islamic Terrorists stretching between both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pakistan may disintegrate as a so-called secular Republic as the radical Islamic terrorists who have the hearts of both Afghanistan and Pakistan overrun Pakistan from one side as the current military looks over their back to see what action India will take expecting the worst.
Then comes the globalized part of any Middle East conflict. Russian and China by necessity will have to choose sides. At first glance those two nations may feel it is in their National Interest to go with Iran initially. On the other hand I can see a scenario that China and India join the USA against Iran out of (ironically) Capitalist market issues. Although China needs Middle Eastern oil, they are totally invested in American markets in which the USA owes the Red Chinese some dough.
China and Russia have put on a unified front militarily lately however I sense China would throw Russia under a bus in a heart beat if they thought the best chance to remain a powerful emerging wealth nation was to hook-up with America.
If China switched to support America in a Middle East war, Russia may bow out due to self-preservation. Or there is the uncertainty of the re-emergence of Russian hubris may cause the Russian government to go for broke by supporting Iran. It would not be the first time in Russian history that Russia appeared to be down for the count only to bounce back a victor. There is Russia versus Napoleon and Russia versus Hitler as examples.
I really don’t have a good guess about Russian in a Middle East conflict. As a Bible student I would guess Russia would join Iran and Syria merely because most Protestant Biblical prophetic based ministries expect Russia to come from the North to threaten Israel’s existence. If this turns out to be that prophetic time, when things look dire the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will step in on Israel’s behalf at the last moment to render a decisive victory for Israel.
If it is not that prophetic moment, then look toward traditional geopolitical maneuvering to line up the sides as the cards are slowly drawn for play.
At any rate Prison Planet views President Obama to have contingency plans ready to battles Iran.
JRH 5/24/09
Now that Netanyahu has formalized a coalition government and is the official Prime Minister of Israel, he has come out of his corner swinging.
I heard yesterday that Netanyahu will take an Israeli unilateral response against Iran SOON if the chicken appeasing West (my embellishment) does nothing about imminent Iranian nukes.
General Patraeus the hero of the Iraq Surge told Congress recently that the threat a nuclear Iran poses to Israel’s existence will cause unilateral military action against Iranian nuke sites.
Apparently the U.S. Military is not working on the same page for Secretary of Defense Gates officially countered his Middle East War General saying if Israel launches a strike it will not be in 2009.
Keep in the Messianic Shi’ite Mullocracy has not been shy about warning America or Israel about retaliation for military adventurist activity against the Iranian nuke program.
Nathan Hodge writing for Danger Room (a Wired offshoot) examines the possibilities Israel will take if indeed a deterrent military strike is utilized against Iranian nuke capabilities. The scenarios that Hodge uses do give an image of concreteness to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s public dressing down of Iran nukes and the West’s inability to do anything but offer appeasement over those nukes.
Hodge examines potential flight paths that Israel might risk as well as long range missile strikes assuming that Israeli Jericho III multi-stage ballistic missile is very accurate.
Since I am a Christian Zionist Neocon that Middle Eastern Muslims and Leftists hate, it is no surprise that I pray for a successful mission for Israel. Indeed, I hope that the U.S.A. would join or at least secretly aid Israel in this endeavor.
Iran has thumbed its nose at the International Community about its nuke program. Iran has lied to the International Community about its nuclear program. Iran has prevented full disclosure inspections by the global nuclear watchdog IAEA. Iran claims its nuke program is peaceful for energy needs yet it is producing weapons grade uranium beyond the needs of peaceful energy. Iran is the largest Nation-State providing aid, training and relief to Islamic terrorists (both Shi’ite and Sunni).
Sounds a lot like Saddam Hussein’s former regime.
The West and the U.S.A. have twiddled their thumbs about the obvious intent of Iran’s agenda to develop WMD.
Heck yeah: go get’em Israel.
JRH 4/2/09
Ever since rumors of Iran going beyond the use of peaceful technology with their nuclear program there have been hints of military strikes (and HERE) from either Israel or the USA or both to set Iran’s nuclear back.
It became clear as Bush’s popularity began to shrink coupled with zero support with the Russian and Chinese portions of the United Nations Security Council that the Bush Administration was not going to involve the USA in a military strike against Iran. This so much the case a political rumor escaped that Ehud Olmert visited Bush to get the go ahead for Israel to do a solo strike against Iran’s nuclear capability. Bush did not give that go-ahead.
Now the rumors are beginning to fly again and only action will verify the difference between reality and rumor.
That rumor is that Israel is considering a solo strike against Iran before President Elect Obama takes Office on January 20, 2009. The reasoning being that Bush’s hands are even more tied and President Elect Obama is so pro-Arab that he will be more ambitious to strip Israel back to the pre-1967 borders before Arab invaders made yet another attempt to destroy Israel – and lost. Coincidently this pre-1967 border plan is a Saudi initiative.
Setting this up for you, you really need to read Joel C. Rosenberg’s article on this situation.
JRH 11/17/08 (Hat tip to Don Moore of Blind Conservatives)
It is a shame there is a hold up on what would be the beginning of a beautiful geopolitical relationship. Some time ago India and America under the negotiations of the Singh government and the Bush Administration worked out the details for sharing nuclear technology.
I don’t care what anyone says moving to a close relationship with India will be a huge geopolitical coup for both America and India.
Part of the problem is the past history between India and America.
For decades India was in the old Communist Soviet camp as buddies with weapons and technology. This was the case despite of the fact India is a Parliamentarian democracy and the Soviets were a despotic communist dictatorship bent on spreading the delusion of Marxist/Leninism.
Part of this association with the old USSR was because India’s mortal enemy Pakistan had become a buddy with America during the days America was funding the Afghan Islamist revolt in then Communist Afghanistan. (This is another classic evidence of betrayal to America after help to be delivered from Communism.) Also India and Communist China were rattling sabers over border issues as was the old USSR and China on that border. Also India had gone the nuclear route in its quest for defense against the hated enemy Pakistan and the nominal enemy China.
Thus clearly it was in the National Interest of India to be in the deceased Soviet orbit.
The times, they are a changing.
Communist super power the USSR is no more. The old Soviets have chosen a republican form of government and lost much of their Soviet Union satellites. Russia is still a viable power but it is a mere shell of its past global designs for world hegemony.
Pakistan and America are still hooked up however that partnership is becoming more and more tenuous every day as Islamism appears to be the most influential dynamic among Pakistanis and some ruling elites in the government (Constant peace accords with the Taliban and refusing to let American troops into Pakistan to track down the Taliban and al Qaeda is evidence of that).
India and China (ironically both dominated by socialistic or communistic thinking) are becoming global competitors capitalistically for global markets and thus are still not the best of friends. China is a particular nuisance for India because the Chinese government is using their no found market wealth to modernize their military and make a go for Asian hegemony as the new Russia is also trying to build a regional hegemonic sphere.
India’s special relationship to the Russians is becoming less reliable as is Pakistan’s relationship to America.
India before and since independence from the U.K. in 1948 has been at odds with the Indian Muslim population; which is why a Pakistan (E. Pakistan later became independent Bangladesh) was carved out of the Indian sub-continent. India as Israel has known Islamist terrorism against their Hindi population as Israel has against their Jewish population.
The times we live in would make India and America natural allies. What is the hold-up?
Singh’s Parliamentarian government and America’s Senate have problems with each other. The former mistrusts America in being involved in their WMD program and the latter are upset that India is not part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and does not want to share peaceful nuclear technology that might be an enhancement to India’s WMD program. For America and India to be internationally compliant, there are a few international regulatory agencies that also must sign off on the America/India nuke pact (such as the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group).
Can Bush and Singh manage to push the pact through before their nation’s mutual upcoming elections? It would be in America’s interest for that to happen.
JRH 7/27/08
Moshe Sharon writes that has Israel has only shot at Iran. Success is vital in a surgical strike for if it fails utterly or beyond expectations, Iran and its proxies could deliver a blow that could end Israel’s existence.
Personally I think success or failure is irrelevant. A surgical strike on Iran’s nuke capability may make the world safer from radiation fall-out; however Iran and it military surrogates are going to respond anyway. I suspect America’s aid might be the only thing to tip Israel’s defense to a favorable outcome.
Does that mean Israel should abandon a surgical strike against Iran because the stakes would be inevitable?
I say no!
Sharon also points out that the Mullah controlled Shi’ites of Iran and Ahmadinejad’s belief in Mohammedan destiny means Iran will attack Israel eventually. Sharon quotes a Mohammedan Hadith (which the Sunnis also preach) that is prevalent clerical sermons:
The last hour will not come unless the Muslims fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and the stone or the tree would say: "Muslim! Servant of Allah! Here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!"
Coupling this Mohammedan race hatred of Jews and a military desire to rebuild the ancient Iranian hegemony in the Middle East probably means Israel will be the inevitable focus for a reason to begin a war. Thus Israel may be faced with fighting a conventional war or a nuke war. Israel could lose both with undoubted Israeli defensive damage to the Mohammedan world; however a conventional war might be Israel’s best chance to survive.
Sharon points out effectively that Iran or any other aggressors might be stung pretty badly by an Israeli strike; however the little sliver of a land known as Israel could be devastated off the map. Thus Sharon points outs Israel only has one shot.
JRH 7/18/08 (Hat tip Prophecy Update)
The publicity of Iran’s nuclear ambitions seem to fade in the American press as the November 2008 elections creep slowly nearer; yet the repercussions of a nuclear armed Iran is increasingly growing as a global threat. The global threat is NOT because America is in Iraq attempting to create a stable government. Nay good friends, the global threat is because Iran’s government is under a leadership that looks for global chaos due to the religious expectations of Radical Shi’ites belief that the Twelfth (Lost) Imam will be the Mahdi. These radical Shi’ites expect this Mahdi to make the Earth Mohammedan in its entirety.
All the politics of a U.S. occupation of Iraq is the propaganda that these Shi’ite Twelvers revel in with this Mahdi expectation. (The Wahhabi Sunnis have their own reasons of American hatred that are similar yet very different.)
This radical Shi’ite mindset is why it is so globally dangerous for Iran to become a nation in possession of nuclear weapons. There would be no geo-political restraint of the old Cold War Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) theory preventing nuclear powers from engaging in a nuclear war. Iran would push the warhead launch buttons merely to enable chaos in a deluded realization of the Mahdi.
International diplomacy crawls at a snails pace. The Ayatollahs of Iran are using the political management of Twelver disciple President Ahmadinejad to surge Iran into the possession of nuke WMD’s. Ahmadinejad has taken full advantage of Western style diplomacy to move their program along without interruption. The West talks while Iran walks toward the WMD dream.
Iran has successfully tied up America in Iraq and (to a lesser degree) in Afghanistan by being a weapons supplier and terrorist trainer. The vehicle Iran has utilized for tying the American military (essentially killing our military boys clandestinely) is the Revolutionary Guard. The Revolutionary Guard is essentially Iran’s extra-military force outside its regular Military that is at the trusted bidding of the Ayatollahs. The Revolutionary Guard has its origins in the lack of trust in a U.S. trained Iranian Military under the rule of deposed Shah, an extremely loyal ally of America dumped for his repression of Iranians by screw-up President Carter. Thus Iran exchanged the repression of the Shah for the repression of the Khomeini Revolution. The exchange of repression for repression did not help the plight of Iranians and this is why Carter is a screw-up, especially in the realm of Middle Eastern diplomacy.
U.N. Sanctions have been highly ineffective in slowing down Iran’s nuclear process because Russia and China’s support of Iran. Russia’s distaste for America probably arises from jealously from taken down a notch by America’s overwhelming the former Communist Soviet Union. China’s support of Iran is due to a National Interest connection due to the obvious – oil.
The EU has attempted talks with Iran but that is part of the stall agenda of Ahmadinejad, in other words a failure.
America has ratcheted its own sanctions to a much higher degree than the U.N. on Iran yet having little effect on Iran’s nuclear expansion. President Bush has upped the ante on sanctions by preparing to place the Revolutionary Guard on America’s Terrorist list. This will make it tougher for American Corporations or foreign Corporations that come under the jurisdiction of American law to deal with Iran. It will allow Iranian assets related to the Revolutionary Guards to be frozen as well.
Do I think this will slow down Iran’s nuclear program? Nope. However I do think it will annoy Iran that they may make a move that may expose publicly what Western governments already know clandestinely; viz. that Iran is way more dangerous to global peace than the official Appeasement line of the West is willing to admit to their constituent public or the Left dominated deluded pro-Arab and pro-oil-Iran loving media are willing to admit.
