Beware the Harshly Worded Statement

Iran keeps speeding like a locomotive towards the nuclear brass ring, and the world can't quite figure out what to do. So, they're doing the next best thing.

Preparing a Security Council action. Not a security council resolution with the threat of force backing it but rather a harshly worded statement perhaps. Or five separate statements that say the same thing because appearing on the same page might give the wrong signals to the Iranian nutjobs who are in charge.

At present, it doesn't look like a resolution is in the offing because the P5 countries can't agree on the terms. But in reality, all of this is just a kabuki dance as I don't think anything will be done before Iran gets the bomb:

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have sent strong messages to Iran to halt plans for nuclear fuel research and resume talks with European powers, said a senior U.S. official.

A senior State Department official, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, said on Monday the so-called P5 -- Britain, France, the United States, Russia and China -- had sent separate notes to Tehran in recent days over its plans to resume research on nuclear fuel.

The United States had been looking for a strong joint statement but finally settled on separate statements with the same message -- that Iran should not resume nuclear fuel research.

"We have worked closely with the Russians, the Chinese, the French, the British and others," said the State Department official, adding, "The Iranians have received these messages."

In addition, the world's five nuclear powers also urged Iran to return to "serious negotiations" with the so-called European Union-3, Britain, France and Germany, which have spearheaded talks with Iran over its nuclear plans.

Now, about the Iranian nutjobs in charge. It appears as though that Ahmadinejad is so nutty, that the Ayatollah Khomeinhi feared the guy's religious beliefs.

President Ahmadinejad is a member of the Hojatieh sect, seen by many Shiite Muslims as verging on the lunatic fringe of Islam, and thought to be so extreme by Ayatollah Khomeini whose 1979 revolution overthrew the shah that it was driven underground in 1983. The Hojatieh sect is now very much back in favor with the new Iranian government, and the new president is a fervent admirer of its spiritual leader, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, known in secular circles in Tehran as "the crazed one."

This is the guy in charge in Iran. He says he wants the bomb and has called for the elimination of Israel. Failing to take this guy at his word comes at our peril. And by our, I mean anyone who doesn't think the way Ahmadinejad does. Which means pretty much everyone - Muslim, Jew, Christian, athiest, agnostic, leftist, or a right-winger.

UPDATE:
Six Meat Buffet has more on Iran's genocidal run for the roses.