Next Axis of Evil Target: Iran, Part II
Looks like our Department of State is still turning up the rhetoric on Iran.


Here are the highlights. The stick:

An American envoy repeated US allegations Monday about an Iranian nuclear weapons program and said Israel might attack Iran's nuclear sites because the Jewish state has "a history" of such actions.

Kind of weird, no? An American using Israel to threaten Iran. "I'm not sayin' they're gonna do it, but they done it before..."

The carrot:

"Libya provides a case where a regime can give up weapons of mass destruction and stay in power," he said. "We didn't make any deals with Libya. Libya made its decision based on what it saw in Iraq," Bolton said. "They came to the decision that it was safer to give up nuclear weapons than to pursue them."

I hope this doesn't mean that we'd agree to keep the Mullahs in power if they surrender their nuclear fuel, but I do hope it means that we're trying to scare them that we'll overthrow them if they don't.

And with Bush in power, you know Iran has to be worried. The unknowables are (1) what are we doing with the Iranian resistance right now? (2) what is the Iranian government going to do?

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Previous posts relating to Iran:
1/21/05 Next Axis of Evil Target: Iran
12/15/4 Mullah Pet
11/27/4 Iran Dug Tunnel for Military Nuclear Work
11/4/04 Pic of the Day - served up by Doctor Bean @ 4:46 PM