Iran Goes Nuclear--UN Fails Again

Well, it's good to know we had a Nobel Laureate on the case.

Iran celebrates developing enriched uranium while the world watched.

The picture begs the question: In a nation flush with oil, why celebrate developing a nuke program that will provide for nuclear power plants? What you see at right is the greatest change in mideast politics in 25 years.

The world is different this morning, it's a much more dangerous place.

Update: The world community reacts:

Russia and China - traditionally sympathetic to Tehran - added their voices to the chorus of criticism. Both are important players on the Iran issue, with veto rights at the Security Council, and have hitherto opposed sanctions against a country that is one of their major trading partners. Today Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, urged Iran to stop all enrichment work but repeated that the use of force could not solve the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear programme.

"If such plans exist they will not be able to solve this problem. On the contrary they could create a dangerous explosive blaze in the Middle East, where there are already enough blazes," he said.

Both Russia and China are believed to have assisted Iran get to this point so take their statements with a barrel of salt.

Sergei doesn't even know what a blaze in the mideast is until Iran threatens Israel with a nuke or heaven forbid launches one into Tel Aviv. The conflagration will stretch around the world.

Our buddy, Kofi Annan, took time off from counting his dirty Iraqi money and issued the following statement:

"I appeal to everyone to actively work to search for a diplomatic solution and to cool down the rhetoric and not to escalate," Mr Annan told Reuters after a meeting with Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch Prime Minister, in The Hague.

We wouldn't be in this spot you blithering, corrupt idiot if it wasn't for UN incompetence in the first place.