Imminent strike?

5th May, 2006

With the re-referral of Iran to the UN Security Council by the International Atomic Energy Authority, the international community has signalled its concern – but no more.

There are even deep divisions over imposing meaningful sanctions. However, Dick Cheney has long spelled out quietly, but clearly, that Teheran will simply not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

It would be entirely out of character for the Vice President and the administration to issue threats and then back down on an issue they consider vital to US security, particularly in the face of Iran ratcheting up the rhetoric, and going out of their way to be provocative, stepping up their limited uranium enrichment.

Threats

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials have also threatened to:

• ?withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
• ?ban further IAEA inspections
• ?export nuclear technology to their allies - this last sinister threat was made by the Supreme Leader, ...

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