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16Nov/095

Surprise! UN finally realizes admits that Iran might have more nuke sites.

I've been saying for a long time, following the most recent revelation of a secret Iranian enrichment facility at Qum, that the Iranians had to have at least one more secret nuclear facility; that being a uraniam conversion site to clandestinely supply the now not-so-secret enrichment facility at Qum.Â But from the Dangerroom at Wired comes the news that the IAEA has finally admitted that the current regime in Iran has a "credibility problem":

According to the Iranians, funds were allocated to launch the project in the second half of 2007 â€” but the Islamic Republic did not notify the agency about the facilityâ€™s existence until September 2009. That delayed declaration, the IAEA politely noted, â€œreduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities under construction and gives rise to questions about whether there were any other nuclear facilities not declared to the agency,â€ the report said.

In other words, a pattern of secrecy persists when it comes to Iranâ€™s nuclear ambitions. And unless Tehran shifts gears, â€œthe Agency will not be in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran.â€

Well no foolin' Sherlock effin' Holmes!Â That's only what reasonable people have been saying for a long time.Â And so it seems, that regardless of Obama's charismatic majesterium and divine countenance, the same tired ultimatum we've issued, oh say a zillion times before, is working about as well as it always has.Â Must be more of that Change! we can believe in...

Indeed, based on the self-evident muscularity pusillanimity of the President's foreign policy, Ahmadi-Nejad has responded as any schoolyard Napolean-complex bully would when faced with a larger, but cowardly, opponent; he's declared that we better not tell him to stop again, orÂ he'll simply redouble his efforts!

Ah yes, that Smart Power!,Â yielding dividends again...

Let's hope that work is moving right along on the new modified-for-B-2-use MOP.

(H/T AllahPundit at Hot Air)

Rocketman

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28Oct/095

Smart Power! on Iran, yet another expired promise?

I Remember several times during the campaign,Â and Â during Â the second Presidential debate, Â when Obama declared, "A nuclear Iran is unacceptable!".Â Well it seems like we've just reached that promise's expiration date:

The Obama administration is quietly laying the groundwork for long-range strategy that could be used to contain a nuclear-equipped Iran and deter its leaders from using atomic weapons.

U.S. officials insist they are not resigned to a nuclear Iran and are pressing negotiations to prevent it from joining the world's nuclear club. But at the same time, the administration has set in place the building blocks of policies to contend with an Iran armed with atomic weapons.

So it appears that the unacceptability of a nuclear Iran was Just Words! like so many other promises made to America and her allies.Â But will the administration really sit back and allow this to happen?Â An event that would surely deal a death blow to the Democrat's foreign policy credentials at home and abroad.Â Especially when he enjoys a European consensus on denying Iran that capability, as well as the weapons to accomplish it...

I'm praying that the President finds the will to put a stop to Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, and would urge you too also.Â Just as there are no moderate Taliban, so too can there be no MAD doctrine, no detente, with an Iranian regime bent on Israel's destruction-and proven willing to sponsor and conduct suicide attacks to advance that cause.