Good News!

Much diplomacy, diplomatic coersion, goodwill and suspended apprehensions have been expended of late within the United Nations and the Security Council to persuade the Islamic Republic of Iran that as a member of the world's united nations it has a wider obligation to reassure other countries of the world of its peaceful intentions. Even while Iran insists its plans for nuclear availment are merely for peaceful, industrial purposes, there are clear signs that signal otherwise.

Any observer would have to be blind, dumb, deaf and witless not to be aware that the signals sent by Iran with respect to its aspirations, and its aggravated intentions toward other states in the Middle East do not point to aggression. And aggression aided and abetted by nuclear-tipped missiles result in a kind of catastrophic finality that no country in the world (with few exceptions, inclusive of Iran and North Korea) would view with equanimity.

In dealing with the Iranian Republic no one in their right minds denies privately that they are negotiating with a regime that isn't quite right-minded. In the sense that they are collectively and singularly delusional and paranoid. Holding their own people in thrall to their ambition to rise like the Islamic Phoenix out of the ashes of their former glory. The foremost power and representative of Islam and its values in the Middle East.

After which, further and more fulsome expansion can be logically contemplated. Executive powers like those of America and Great Britain see great value in appeasing a hideously disgruntled administration in Iran, questioning why the rest of the world does not recognize them as a great and respected power? President Barack Obama has gone to great lengths to attempt to soothe the bruised feelings of a ferocious-minded totalitarian government.

France's Nicholas Sarkozy appears to have long ago shed the rose-coloured glasses that Obama refuses to set aside. Russia and China are not quite wrapped into the flimsy veil of deterrence that Western states have invested themselves in, to whatever tenuous degree they have. Both Russia and China have supported Iran's position with respect to nuclear availment. And both have gone further, directly supplying Iran with plans and expertise and hardware.

Israel has handed over to Moscow a list of Russian nuclear scientists who have been actively, and some claim without the permission of the Kremlin, assisting Iran in its nuclear plans. Yet although fingers of blame can be pointed in their direction, it is the powers of the West who have proven themselves fairly lily-livered in this mission to persuade Iran to stand down. Hesitant to assert themselves, to pull their own nationals back from investing in Iran.

Above all, agreeing in Iran's terms, to be satisfied by inspections so far into the future that frantic cover-ups may successfully once again cloak any traces of inappropriate, incriminating and dangerous manoeuvres. Meanwhile, Iran and its enablers will continue to stealthily search out technical appliances that will be useful to the Republic in continuing and perfecting its ongoing aspirations.

Some of those illegal and dangerous shipments of parts covertly heading for innocent-appearing ports of entry to be trans-shipped to Iran have been detected and confiscated. Some of them have been detected and apprehended in Canada. Iran, while clumsy on the world stage in revealing its true agenda, is foxy in its ability to hold off direct interventions.

And the UN and Western interlocutors remain fatuously hollow in their oft-repeated statements of effectively instituting painfully-effective economic sanctions. The Ayatollahs and their illegally-elected president, [legitimized by his acceptance at the UN and through diplomatic avenues of recognition] along with the Republic Guards must be laughing up the sleeves of their colourful garments.

With Hamas and Hezbollah cheering them on all the way, eager to get on with the revolution of all revolutions.