Joining forces?

Rejected by Europe and regularly criticized in the West, Turkey is slowly turning its attentions and affections to the east. In the latest developments, Prime Minister Erdogan now describes Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “friend”, claiming:

“Countries with nuclear weapons are not in a position to turn to another country and say: ‘You are not supposed to produce nuclear weapons,’” he said.

“Iran has consistently spoken of the fact that it is seeking to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes and that they are using uranium enrichment programmes for civilian purposes only.”

“That is what Mr Ahmadinejad has told me many times before.”

Turkish-Iranian relations have hardly been this friendly before.

Accurate

Iran’s highly touted agreement to enrich uranium outside the country is proving to be more of the same.

Ahmadinejad has now ordered his scientists to enrich the material to 20% moving it closer to its dream of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iran is a threat to American interests in the Middle East, to Israel and every Sunni Muslim country in the region and to world peace. Talks and sanctions will not solve this crisis.

Iran had been claiming all this while that its nuclear ambitions were entirely peaceful, but Ahmadinejad has finally fessed up:

Iran will produce fuel enriched to a level of 20 percent

While only 4-5% enrichment is required for power generation and other peaceful measures, Iran is now claiming that it wants isotopes for medical reasons.

Basically, Ahmadinejad & Co. are taking another step towards achieving weapons grade fissile material.

A nuclear armed Iran is a danger to Western interests, to all its neighbors, including Israel, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and to world peace.

Sanctions haven’t worked in all these years. It may be time to tighten the noose, and even go to war.

Capital No More?

There was a story earlier this week that Iran’s government is seriously considering moving its national capital from Teheran, because, apparently:

[it] is in danger of being struck by a major earthquake.

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More holocaust denial from Ahmadinejad and what do we get from Western powers? More condemnation. That has been so effective thus far.

Stop Faking It

Elections in Iran are merely window-dressing. The philosophy: let’s get ‘em to vote for a puppet head and they’ll be happy. Even the protests in Iran focused on the rigged elections, not on the illegitimacy of the entire Iranian regime.

Westerners were happy to see the “green revolutionaries” fighting to oust Ahmadinejad – a useless character, a mere talking head. Where was the “green revolution” to remove the Ayatollahs from power? Read on »