Webloggin » Iran Remains Defiant In The Face of UN Sanctions

This news is not surprising considering all the actions of Iran this past year to date. Iran suffered little to no consequences for capturing the Brit Sailors or for any other absurdity they have created. Apparently Iran believes that it can continue with business as usual, and why not, no one is really putting pressure on Iran. The UN sanctions are worthless and it is obvious that the UN did not learn its lesson from Iraq and Saddam Hussein. The UN is doomed to repeat that very same mistake.

Just weeks after the United Nations imposed tightened sanctions against Iran, the Tehran government defiantly has announced increased uranium enrichment capabilities, as revelations about an Iranian official’s banned visit to Russia raised questions about the effectiveness of the new UN resolution.

The Guardian reports that on Monday, the one-year anniversary of Iran’s announcement that it had attained a nuclear fuel cycle, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced at a televised ceremony that “the Iranian nation had joined the group of countries who enriched uranium on an industrial scale.”

Before an audience that included his cabinet, senior mullahs and dozens of foreign ambassadors, Mr Ahmadinejad warned [UN] security council members that Iran would “reconsider its treatment towards them” if they continued to oppose its nuclear ambitions. “They have seen again and again that our nation is powerful enough to do that,” he said to chants of “death to Britain”, “death to America” and “death to Israel”. “I advise them to observe the legal rights of different nations and stop monopolising, because that will not be to their benefit.”

The Guardian also reports that Ali Larijani, Iran’s top diplomat, said his country has 3,000 centrifuges capable of processing uranium. The Associated Press reports that the number of centrifuges allegedly operating is nearly 10 times the previously known number, and in theory is enough to produce a nuclear weapon within a year, but that there is skepticism in the US that Iran really has that many working centrifuges — “a difficult technical feat given the country’s spotty success with a much smaller number.”

The situation concerning Iran is not good and The Jerusalem Post weighs in according to the artictle:

An analysis in The Jerusalem Post says that Iran’s recent actions – the nuclear announcement, the capture of British soldiers, and the supplying of “terrorists” in Iraq – are all aimed at one purpose: to show up President Bush as a “paper tiger” incapable of responding to Iran’s continued challenges.

With the Iranian economy tottering and growing criticism within senior circles in Teheran of his diplomatic conduct, Ahmadinejad’s grip on power is far from firm. But he is willing to bet that his rivals are in an even more precarious situation.

With British Prime Minister Tony Blair about to resign in a few months, Israel still licking its wounds from the summer’s war in Lebanon and a hostile Congress trying to limit Bush’s powers to use the military, Ahmadinejad is convinced that Bush is too isolated to order a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. (emphasis mine)

Does this leave any doubts in the minds of our American citizens that the Democrats actions in the Congress and Senate are played out on the world scene? What a horrid message being conveyed to Ahmadinejad by this current irresponsible governing power here within our country. They should be ashamed of themselves, but they are not. To them it is just - business as usual.

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