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...enrichment in Iran in exchange for guarantees of no full nuclear fuel production.” How could someone who just finished authoring a three year report on the fact that Iran may have nuclear ambitions say such an absurd thing? ElBaradei has not publicly changed his stance on Iran??s nuclear arms, but unofficially he is leaning towards resignation and impotence. By doing this, ElBaradei seems willing to stake the lives of millions of people, both in the Middle East and elsewhere, on “guarantees” from a regime that has advocated extremism time...
With most of the world focusing on the Danish cartoon controversy, the upset victory by Hamas, and Iran??s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea’s celebration of the 64th birthday of its “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il, last week went largely unnoticed. But although many think that the North Korea crisis has passed because all six parties announced last September that they had reached a preliminary agreement, the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is far from settled. No progress has been made in carrying out the agreement...
This is why I find the current situation in Iran to be so truly troubling. President Ahmadinejad in particular seems to have been reading his history books; the vocabulary of legitimacy and sovereign rights figure prominently in his pronouncements defending Iran??s pursuit of nuclear weapons. These sort of relativist arguments are plausible on one level—we have nuclear weapons after all—but fall apart when one notes the extreme paranoia and totalitarianism prevalent in the Iranian regime...
Despite the opinions of much of the media, the UN, and most of our European allies, I would suggest that a political system as diabolical as Iran??s is not actually capable of holding any sort of “legitimacy” whatsoever. A nation that beheads gays, proclaims America “Great Satan,” and considers Jews to be sub-humans worthy of nuclear extermination is not worthy of respect, and should be shown none. Rather, it should not be allowed even the barest tatters of international legitimacy, and should be excoriated, openly...
...mullah’s theocracy. There is substantial opposition to the Islamic republic, especially among the younger generation that constitutes the majority of the Iranian population. Despite the popular conception of Iran as a nation of frothing America-haters, Iranian youth are surprisingly pro-America and pro-democracy. Indeed, Iran??s democratic opposition continues to exist despite a massive state security apparatus and unceasing propaganda that seeks to paint the United States as the “Great Satan.” The United States can benefit from this opposition and do the people of Iran a service...