Here is the beginning of a recent article by The New York Times: “[T]alks between Iran and six world powers ended in failure Saturday, with Iran refusing to engage on any concrete proposals to build confidence that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes … .”
Unfortunately, the reason Iran is unwilling to show that its nuclear aims are “peaceful” is that they aren’t! That is obvious from its refusal to allow outside inspections, as well as from the fact that oil-rich Iran doesn’t need much in the way of nuclear energy. And then there is Iran’s stated desire to wipe the nation of Israel off the map — something its radical Muslim leadership could not really hope to accomplish without nuclear weapons.
Facts and common sense leave little question about the purpose of Iran’s nuclear program.
What is much more questionable is why the United States keeps taking “talks” with Iran seriously. This charade of negotiations has been going on for years with no progress. The only thing less effective than “talks” is the “threat of U.N. sanctions” — sanctions that rarely have any teeth.
The fact is, there is no ready solution to terrorist-backing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Out of a sense of self-preservation, Israel might launch strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites, as it did previously against nuclear sites in Iraq. But that is a risky strategy, with no guarantee that the heavily protected sites would be destroyed.