No wise nation would be interested in making a nuclear weapon today. They are against rational thought
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

& that’s the whole crux of the whole nuclear Iran debate isn’t it? Iran is many many things, but a rational country led by ‘statesmen’ it certainly is not – how about something along the lines of globally one of the largest net exporters of terrorism? Is that closer to the mark? Even the those serial appeasers of dictators at the United Nations have grave concerns about the direction of Iran’s (ahem) nuclear power programme, you don’t just smell a rat so much as you know that the Pied Piper could be kept busy until he reached retirement.

& the EU’s response is what exactly?

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana is planning to travel to Tehran soon to submit a new package of incentives for Iran to stop its most sensitive nuclear work.

Ah, more appeasement? Well that’s really likely to work. In fact when you hear US presidential candidates talk about wanting to sit down & ‘engage’ with these lunatics you really have to start to think that maybe the allegations of foreign policy inexperience might just have a grain of truth about them.

& the answer to this seemly intractable problem … at the risk of sounding like a management consultant; outsource it. Give the Israelis whatever additional capability that they require & let them go & spread the love.

Rightly or wrongly, Israeli might be in breech of a zillion UN resolutions (incidentally, many of which are of very questionable motivation) but over the last couple of decades, they have taken more practical measures to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons than any other nation & certainly have proved to be more effective in this than any meaningless pieces of paper.