When even the indecisive U.N. is forced to admit that Iran is seeking to build a nuclear weapon, we can surely dismiss Iran’s claims that it wants only “peaceful” nuclear energy.
Recently, the U.N. agency that oversees worldwide nuclear developments, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in its clearest terms yet that Iran is likely trying to put together a nuclear bomb.
Observers outside the U.N. bureaucracy have issued that warning explicitly for some time, but the U.N. has been slow to state the obvious.
Worse still, the U.N. may even have previously provided some cover for Iran’s nuclear plans. The IAEA withheld an earlier report that painted the Iranian nuclear situation as dire. There was “concern” at the top levels of the U.N. agency that if Israel — which Iran has said it wants to annihilate — and the United States learned the full extent of Iran’s nuclear weapons development, they might take action to stop it.
The latest news of Iran’s rapid work to build a nuclear weapon adds a sense of urgency to discussions of sanctions against the radical Muslim regime there. Iran is, after all, a nation that has sponsored terrorism in other nations, and it is awful to contemplate Iran in possession of nuclear weapons.
Whether or not sanctions get Iran to cease and desist, the free world can no longer afford just to “hope” that Iran’s nuclear program is geared toward peaceful purposes. Its weapons manufacturing is a serious threat that should be confronted and stopped.