The nuclear weapon 'problem' in the Middle East is NOT that Iran might get them, it's that Israel has them...(& where's that little Dougy Feith; has he moved there yet? Seems all the neo-cons that could have fled the administration. Just the old, decrepit and insane are left.)

West resigns itself to a nuclear Iran
IAN MATHER DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT AND ALEX MASSIE IN WASHINGTON

WESTERN governments face defeat in their attempts to stop Iran from pursuing its drive to become a nuclear power.
Officials in London and Washington now privately admit that they must face the painful fact that there is nothing they can do, despite deep suspicions that Tehran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons under cover of researching nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Yesterday a defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not be deflected from its right to develop nuclear technology by referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
"If they want to destroy the Iranian nation's rights by that course, they will not succeed," he said, adding that Tehran did not need nuclear weapons because they are only used by nations who "want to solve everything through the use of force". ...http://tinyurl.com/8t7of
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