Iran’s Bomb Continues Apace

Iran has taken another huge step toward building nuclear weapons and no nation seems ready to stop them.

TEHRAN, Jan. 10 — Iran resumed work on its nuclear program Tuesday, ending a voluntary suspension by breaking United Nations inspection seals at an atomic facility south of the capital.

U.S., European and Russian officials immediately condemned the move, warning that it brought Iran dramatically closer to facing international sanctions.

I think it’s high time we in the US started dumping plenty of materian assistance into the democratic movement in Iran right now. Otherwise, the Mullahs are going to have a nuke and it’ll be far too late to unseat them, as Jim Robbins suggests in an NRO article today.

The longer we all wait, the worse the situation gets, as we’ve seen in North Korea. The problem, as I see it, is the Anti-War Party has so manipulated public opinion through screeching discourse and misrepresentations that there’ are precious few ways the administration can get aggressive with the Mullahs without drawing more invective from them.

Though there is ray of light here. Der Spiegel, a German publication, is finally leading a belated European charge to stop the Mullahs (h/t: Ace). Is it a case of “too little, too late”? I’m not exactly sure. I certainly think the Mullahs can be overthrown or their nuclear ambitions destroyed, but I’m not sure what will drive Europe to consider the sort of military action there that might be necessary.

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