Iran's uranium enrichment, still a 'train on a one-way track'
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With respect to Iran's nuclear program good news is quite scarce as it is with the middle-east peace process. The spineless UN for the first time showed its commitment to a diplomatic course to stop Iran's nuclear program but the fresh sanctions on Iran are inconspicuous.
The U.N. Security Council's five major powers and Germany agreed in principle to ban all Iranian arms exports and freeze the financial assets of 28 Iranian officials and institutions, including several commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Let me go right to the crux of the question. The world must know that even the harshest political and economic sanctions are far too weak to coerce the Iranian nation to retreat from their legal and legitimate demands.
Iranian President Ahmadinejad defied the UN Security Council resolution by saying -
Adding the new sanctions will not halt Iran's peaceful nuclear program even for a second.
Iran's defiance reflects its conviction that it is in a strong enough strategic juncture to ignore outside pressure. So long as its hard-line leaders are convinced that the West has no military option, they see little reason to freeze their nuclear enrichment and conversion.
This puzzle gives rise to two blunt questions
1) What difference does the regime's character make as it travels down the road to a nuclear-armed Iran?
2) And how is the international community prepared to handle the Iranian regime, given its nature, capability, and intent to acquire the bomb?
A tough report on Iran may have stiffened UN resolve to bring Iranian nuclear enrichment but Tehran's nuclear ambition is still a train on a one-way track that refuses to slow down.
