Not Letting Up
Britain's new Prime Minister is holding firm with regards to Iran:
I'm not sure how exactly Iran can prove to Brown that nothing shady is going on (is Brown willing to go to Iran himself to check things out?), but I think that as long as the weapon of choice is sanctions, Brown is on the right track. This option worked with Iraq (as we found out when we got there) and the latest NIE report has confirmed that Iran is not the big threat President Bush and Co. made it out to be. That said, Iran should not be ignored, especially with a leader who says things like the Holocaust never happened.
LONDON (AP) — Sanctions against Iran are still necessary despite an assessment from U.S. intelligence claiming Tehran has abandoned its pursuit of nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.
Brown, who has pushed for stronger sanctions to target Iran's oil and gas industries, said the Iranian regime has not offered a full explanation of why it is enriching uranium.
The United States and allies have long claimed Iran's nuclear program is a cover for the development of nuclear weapons. Tehran insists it is seeking to generate electricity, but Brown said the regime had offered little proof.
"If Iran is enriching uranium or seeking to do so, in a context where it has no real programs for civil nuclear power, there is a question mark over what motive ... and over the purpose of what the enrichment of uranium could, in a very short period of time, lead to," Brown told a parliamentary committee.
"The world is right to insist by sanctions that Iran comes back into line," Brown said.
I'm not sure how exactly Iran can prove to Brown that nothing shady is going on (is Brown willing to go to Iran himself to check things out?), but I think that as long as the weapon of choice is sanctions, Brown is on the right track. This option worked with Iraq (as we found out when we got there) and the latest NIE report has confirmed that Iran is not the big threat President Bush and Co. made it out to be. That said, Iran should not be ignored, especially with a leader who says things like the Holocaust never happened.
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