By Andrew L. Jaffee

Today, Iran achieved a most unholy milestone, one that surely predestines its development of nuclear weapons. And let us not forget that Iran’s Islamo-fascists are the ones with the finger on the trigger. From the BBC:

Iran’s president says his nation has successfully produced the enriched uranium needed to make nuclear fuel.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had joined the nations with “nuclear technology” but again insisted it did not want nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad’s assurances are nothing short of a lie. Iran is the world’s “most active state sponsor of terrorism.” Its regime supports Hamas and Hezbollah, groups devoted to destabilizing the Middle East. Its mullahs are actively working to undermine democracy in Iraq. Iran threatened the U.S. with “harm and pain.”

Daniel Pipes points out that Ahmadinejad fervently believes in — has a “presidential obsession” with — mahdaviat, “the restorer of religion and justice who will rule before the end of the world.” Not apocalyptic enough for you? Pipes continues:

When addressing the United Nations in September, Mr. Ahmadinejad flummoxed his audience of world political leaders by concluding his address with a prayer for the Mahdi’s appearance: “O mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the Promised One, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace.” …

On returning to Iran from New York, Mr. Ahmadinejad recalled the effect of his U.N. speech:

…one of our group told me that when I started to say “In the name of God the almighty and merciful,” he saw a light around me, and I was placed inside this aura. I felt it myself. I felt the atmosphere suddenly change, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink. … And they were rapt. It seemed as if a hand was holding them there and had opened their eyes to receive the message from the Islamic republic.

In Iran there is no figuring things out through consensus; no control of WMD’s by an elected assembly. There is only the (Orwellian) Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He has ultimate control over all decisions. His thugs banned Western music in December (no more “George Michael’s ‘Careless Whisper,’ Eric Clapton’s ‘Rush’ and the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California…’” and “…tunes by saxophonist Kenny G.”). Iran’s theocracy hung two boys for being gay last July. The mullahs banned access to the BBC’s website. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged that Israel be “wiped off the map,” has denied that the Holocaust ever occurred, called for Israel’s Jews to be moved to Europe (ethnically cleansed), and has planned to host a conference to “prove” that Hitler’s extermination of Jews (and gypsies and gays) was a “myth.”

A military option for destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities is starting to sound more and more reasonable.

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Related: Iran, War Against Islamo-fascism

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