Meanwhile, Iran gets on with its bomb
The UN Security Council should this week be discussing how to punish Iran for refusing to halt its uranium-enrichment programme. Instead, the world’s leading powers are trying to bring a halt to the escalating violence in Israel and Lebanon, and Iran’s nuclear programme has fallen off the international agenda.
It would be an understatement to say the mullahs in Teheran are delighted by this. But then, for them at least, it was hardly unexpected. Ever since Iranian exiles revealed the existence of the radical Islamic regime’s top-secret uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz three years ago, Teheran has used every conceivable tactic to impede international attempts to halt its attempts to acquire an indigenous nuclear capability, which the West’s intelligence community is convinced will ultimately result in an Iranian atom bomb.
Very good points made, right? Well here is the kicker!
As even Dr Hans Blix, the dovish former UN weapons inspector, conceded this week, if Iran’s programme continues at its current rate of progress, Teheran will have an atom bomb within five years.
5 Years?
Hey that is pleanty of time to bury our heads in the sand and pretend it will all go away!
July 22, 2006 - 08:27 PM on July 22nd, 2006
5 years? No, we’ve already been told here that it is 10 years away…
Forget the 5 year number too. It doesn’t take 5 years to ship a weapon fron N Korea or Russia…