Iran's Grand Game

Iran is going to expand its nuclear program, not curtail it. Anyone with a firing synapse should see the writing on the wall. The UN Security Council is ineffectual because there's opposition to harsh sanctions, including the potential for military action, if Iran proceeds with its nuclear program.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Sunday that Iran will expand - not suspend - uranium enrichment activities, in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution setting an August 31 deadline for the Islamic Republic to halt nuclear activities or face the threat of political and economic sanctions.

Ali Larijani called the UN Security Council resolution issued last week "illegal" and said Iran won't respect the deadline. "We reject this resolution," he told reporters.

"We will expand nuclear activities where required. It includes all nuclear technology including the string of centrifuges," Larijani said, referring to the centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium.

He said Iran had not violated any of its obligations under the Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty, and that the UN had no right to require it suspend enrichment.

"We won't accept suspension," he said.

The UN and the IAEA have completely failed to deal with Iran's nuclear program, giving deadlines that keep being pushed off into the future without the slightest repercussion for noncompliance. Every day that decision is delayed is another day that Iranian scientists have to figure out how to get their centrifuges and enrichment equipment to work with maximum efficiency and bring ever more centrifuges online.

When that happens, Iran will be that much closer to having sufficient materials on hand to build the nuclear weapons its mad mullahs crave.

That cannot be allowed to happen given Iran's genocidal intent towards Israel and the West.