Savvy citizen diplomat Mansoor Ijaz is alarmed by Iran's determination to possess nuclear weapons and the progress it is making. He's also concerned about the West's so-far muddled response, but he has a few suggestions.
Iran's mullahs have longed for nuclear bombs since coming to power in 1980. Their pacifying statements and superficial compliance with IAEA inspection teams are masking an unrelenting drive to buy time for their scientists to complete work on the first Shi'ite Islamic bomb.Posted by Alan at March 8, 2004 12:12 AMThere is not a minute to waste in stopping them. With centrifuge technology far more advanced than previously believed, Iran's scientists have been frantically working away on obtaining critical bomb fuel with as many as three separate programs.
Iran is on the verge of becoming perhaps the world's most dangerous nuclear state, one capable of proliferating without regard for international agreements and standards of state behavior. This is precisely what Mr. Khan had in mind when he first envisioned the metastasis of his nuclear cancer — contaminate one cell and let others infect the rest.
The disarray and confusion over Iran policy in Washington, Paris, London and Berlin must not allow nuclear tests to take place that could forever change the course of history.
Via the Washington Times