A New European

…dann ist es fünf vor zwölf:

The trouble is that Iran has a nuclear weapons program that the combined efforts of the United States, Britain, France, Germany and the International Atomic Energy Agency have failed to halt. Mr. Ahmadinejad, moreover, has every reason to think that everything’s going his way. Iran is riding high on soaring oil prices, the United States has neutered Iran’s greatest enemy, Iraq, and both Russia and China are prepared to block any serious move toward sanctions in the U.N. Security Council. So why not indulge in some real vitriol?

Perhaps no one can now pretend that Iran has no hostile motives for its nuclear program. Britain, France and Germany were right to call their ambassadors back from Tehran (Washington doesn’t have one there). Tough diplomacy must continue to curb Iran’s nuclear aspirations, but there must be no illusions about the ideologue presiding in Iran.

Das Beste an Ahmadinejad ist aber immer noch, dass er wie jeder fanatische Irre offen, ehrlich und von »Kritik« seitens des Westens rein gar nicht hält.

A day after drawing international condemnation for declaring that “Israel should be wiped off the map,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined an estimated several hundred thousand demonstrators in an annual anti-Israel march that made clear his words are a time-honored slogan in Iran.

“The Americans and the Zionists have repeatedly talked about regime change in Iran and ousting the Islamic Republic, so they cannot tolerate our president repeating what our late Imam said and what our people say now.” [sagte Rahim Savafi, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]

Ja, mal sehen was die IDF und der Mossad im Gegenzug sagen…