We Don't Want Your Kind in This Club
The suit which serves Tony Blair for a foreign secretary has exuded "serious concern" about Iran's announcement that it has enriched uranium. "It is contrary to repeated requests by the International Atomic Energy Agency board and now by the [UN] security council that Iran resume full and sustained suspension of all enrichment and reprocessing activities, including research and development," the grey thing said, with its usual slick flow of pith. The demand that Iran start again, in a full and sustained fashion, to stop, is particularly brilliant, to my mind.
The suit also demanded that the Iranian government "demonstrate that it was not seeking to build nuclear weapons", on pain of "further diplomatic measures". The impossibility of demonstrating a negative, let alone a future negative (Iran is supposed to show not only that it has no weapons of mass destruction, but that it never will) seems to be proving as useful in the run-up to the liberation of Iran as it did before the democratisation of Iraq (the weapons inspectors couldn't prove they hadn't missed that warhead destined to be Condi's New York mushroom cloud) and the deburqatisation of Afghanistan (the Taliban couldn't prove they weren't sheltering Osama bin Laden, and even committed the indiscretion of asking the US to provide evidence that they were).
The "hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" who, unlike some, has a military record involving actual combat and seems to have been elected in accordance with the laws of his own country, made an evilly gloating announcement yesterday that "Dear Iran has joined the club of nuclear countries." This means, of course, that Britain and the US - both paragons of international legal adhesiveness and armed only with purely defensive nuclear weapons - are surrounded by hostile nuclear powers, while Iran, which has invaded almost as many countries as Haiti, labours frenziedly to wipe us all off the map. President Ahmadinejad made his nefarious ambition all too clear with his announcement that "All our activities have been carried out under the gaze of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, and we would like to carry on under their eyes." The fiend.
The suit also demanded that the Iranian government "demonstrate that it was not seeking to build nuclear weapons", on pain of "further diplomatic measures". The impossibility of demonstrating a negative, let alone a future negative (Iran is supposed to show not only that it has no weapons of mass destruction, but that it never will) seems to be proving as useful in the run-up to the liberation of Iran as it did before the democratisation of Iraq (the weapons inspectors couldn't prove they hadn't missed that warhead destined to be Condi's New York mushroom cloud) and the deburqatisation of Afghanistan (the Taliban couldn't prove they weren't sheltering Osama bin Laden, and even committed the indiscretion of asking the US to provide evidence that they were).
The "hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" who, unlike some, has a military record involving actual combat and seems to have been elected in accordance with the laws of his own country, made an evilly gloating announcement yesterday that "Dear Iran has joined the club of nuclear countries." This means, of course, that Britain and the US - both paragons of international legal adhesiveness and armed only with purely defensive nuclear weapons - are surrounded by hostile nuclear powers, while Iran, which has invaded almost as many countries as Haiti, labours frenziedly to wipe us all off the map. President Ahmadinejad made his nefarious ambition all too clear with his announcement that "All our activities have been carried out under the gaze of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, and we would like to carry on under their eyes." The fiend.
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