Iran faces some Heat

Fire of Liberty

It looks like the IAEA has finally decided that Iran's continued refusal to allow inspectors into their various nuclear facilities and the blatant resumption of enriching uranium after they had previously agreed with the EU3 (Britain, France and Germany) to stop such actions. According to this article in the Financial Times, the UN nuclear watchdog group, the governing board of the IAEA voted 22 for, one against and 12 abstentions on a resolution to report the Iranian government before the UN Security Council for their failure to convince the IAEA and the world that their nuclear program is for peaceful means. I guess when Iran's President gets on TV and publicly state that his country does not care what others say and that they have every right to enrich whatever amounts of uranium for whatever purpose, you'll generally get such a reaction. The only problem is that Iran's mullahs are being reported to the UN Security Council where they have friends like China and Russia waiting to wield their two vetoes for a client state. If we thought that the whole saga with Iraq where the Security Council passed 16 plus resolutions that carried no wait, one can just imagine what awaits Turtle Bay when Iran is thrown into the resolution hopper.

I just hope the US is reaching into it's dusty Reagan era Cold War file cabinet and pulling out the Poland, Eastern Europe and South American files on taking down regimes internally so we don't have to go through the UN tap dance with Iran. This added attention could help the forces of freedom within Iran and the West because it causes Iran to focus on the UN Security Council rather than the domestic front. Though this would be a nice way of looking at things, I still think we need to approach Iran and the mullahs on the level of Michael Ledeen's rather than what we're doing at the moment.