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...Iranian nation won't give a damn about such useless resolutions...
...Iranian nation won't give a damn about such useless resolutions." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, which defied the United Nations Security Council's deadline last week to end its nuclear program or face punitive resolutions...
...diplomatic protocol would have been to tapdance: "I can't imagine ever having to use nuclear weapons," or some such, leaving the nuclear door open, but never saying so specifically. In truth, I was trying to make the same point, undiplomatically - which comes easy for me: If the Iranians persist in crazy talk about wiping Israel, or New York, off the face of the earth, it isn't a bad idea if we hint that we can get crazy, too. One can easily imagine the unthinkable: a suitcase nuclear weapon, acquired from the former Soviet Union by Iranian agents, detonated...
Among the plan's first targets: Iran's accounts and financial institutions in Europe. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met last week with the finance ministers of Britain and Germany, where, according to a U.S. Treasury study, Iranian-government banks operate branches to handle funds generated by the oil trade. The U.S. wants non-Iranian banks to stop facilitating Tehran's money flow. A senior official involved in devising the strategy told TIME, "It's about convincing financial institutions not to deal with bad guys, because they're worried about their own reputations...
...acquire nuclear weapons capability in the short term. By demonizing Iran as part of an “Axis of Evil,” then launching a dubiously justified unilateral invasion of its neighbor and fellow “Axis” member, the U.S. thoroughly rattled the Iranian leadership, causing it to dread it may be next. Predictably, recent reports of U.S. attack plans and longstanding rumors of a “small” tactical nuclear arms program do not help. Rather than compelling Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions with threats of unilateral force—perpetuating...