Dude's lookin' old...

completely crazy that guy. Cant even talk smoothly, has to stutter. Thank God, he is no longer Prime Minister! Has no compunction about having sent thousand of young guys to die in Irak, much better of course than try to contain Sadam Hussain. What a criminal jerk. What are we waiting to send him and his friends Bush et al. to the International Court of Justice?

We already know what the American and British NeoLiberals want -- the control of all Middle Eastern oilfield reserves as a means of preserving the last vestiges of empire before the economic juggernaut of Brazil / Russia / India / China swallows up all untapped oil production capacity.

The perceived WMD threat of future Iranian nukes is nothing more than red herring -- a smokescreen for the continuation of the Bush Doctrine of irrationally justifiable optional preemptive military action against OPEC countries with known quantities of untapped petroleum reserves. Iran is a signatory to the NNPT, and in good standing with UN IAEA inspection protocols. Anyone even mildly familiar with the British and USA's history of belligerence against the Islamic Republic of Iran subsequent to its inception in 1979 would dismiss as completely unfounded any current charges of Iranian nuclear weapons ambitions.

The desperate Iranian need for long term non-petroleum based electrical power generation is the direct effect of 30 years of the British and USA economic embargo of Iran, which has forced it to be a net importer of refined petroleum products (diesel fuel and gasoline). The embargo makes impossible any attempt by Iran to expand their domestic oil refining capacity. This economic stranglehold by the West is tantamount, by way of United Nations definitions, to war. Not surprisingly, Iran's quest for energy independence was a goal once shared by the USA, before the emergence of globalization and flag-less multinational companies interests overrode strategic national security interests.

Iran even possesses adequate low grade uranium ore to sustain a domestic civilian nuclear powered electric grid, presuming that Western (British and USA) commercial nuclear power companies interests do not drive foreign policy regarding the curtailment of Iranian energy independence, which they actually do. That, and not some perceived threat of Iranian nuclear weapon development against Israeli regional nuclear weapon hegemony, drives USA foreign policy objectives regarding Iran, whether under the GW Bush or Obama regimes.

Even presuming the worst case scenario of Iran actually withdrawing from the NNPT and excluding IAEA inspections in the pursuit of nuclear weapon capability, the duration of elapsed time between abrogating nuclear treaties and the physical possession of their first nuclear weapon could be measured in years, not months. And one rather bulky and clumsy first generation Iranian nuclear weapon could hardly be perceived as a credible counter to Israel's suspected 200 to 300+ such weapons. Remember the Cold War between the USA and Soviet Russia was a cold war and not a hot war, due to that concept of Mutual Assured Destruction. Iran is not, in spite of Western propaganda to the contrary, suicidal.

The greatest threat to peace in the Middle East and the world is the USA driven by the precepts of the Bush Doctrine and American Exceptionalism, seconded only by the rabidly militaristic zionist state of Israel, and not the Islamic Republic of Iran.