04 February 2006

Iran Going Before UNSC

In long overdue news, Iran has been referred by the IAEA to the UN Security Council. Consensus was fairly wide among responsible states that Tehran possessing nuclear weapons was a bad idea. Of course there were some holdouts: the communist dictatorship of Cuba, the terrorist regime in Damascus, and the Left's favourite hero (Cindy Sheehan's too!) Hugo Chavez all voted against the referral motion. Great work in standing up for the wrong thing, thugs!
Iran responded predictably as well, vowing to immediately resume its uranium enrichment program. Apparently the rational minds in Tehran came to the conclusion that the best way to convince the "international community" that you're not building a nuclear weapon is to declare an end to diplomacy and pursue enriching uranium. I guess that makes sense in some way.
Of course, referral to the Security Council is no guarantee that real action will take place. Both China and Russia have considerable economic and military connections with the Iranian regime, and they have kindly requested that the matter not be discussed by the Council until March. Let's also recall that just because sanctions are in place, it doesn't necessarily mean that anybody will follow them. Oil-for-food? France? Russia? Anybody remember these wonderful actions vis-a-vis Saddam Hussein, who was under a dozen Security Council resolutions? Somehow I'm pessimistic that one resolution will be enough to get legitimate results over this grave international security problem.

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