TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's ambassador to the United Nations has urged U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and the U.N. Security Council to stop "Washington's illegal and impudent threats against Iran," the state-run Iranian news agency IRNA reported.What threats? You know, the ones where President Bush goes on the news every night and says Iran is an illegitimate country and as such, should be wiped off the map?
It gets better.
"U.S. threats against Iran have found new dimension to the extent that U.S. dailies are publishing stories about possibility of aggression on Iran and whether the U.S. would use nuclear arms against Iran and the U.S. officials do not reject such stories," the letter said.
To my Iranian friend, we have this little thing commonly known as 'freedom of the press.' The last time I checked, the U.S. dailies did not have command authority over our armed forces. I doubt the UN is going to find newspaper stories to be credible threats from our administration.
I haven't even mentioned that our public officials wold have no time to do anything else if they spent all their time rejecting stories from the press. Moving along:
Zarif said that U.S. threat to initiate nuclear attack against Iran has also jeopardized the Non-Proliferation Treaty.That would be the same Non-Proliferation Treaty Iran has threatened to withdraw from.
What makes this whole affair completely absurd is the fact that Iran has recently threatened massive suicide and terror attacks on western interests both civilian and military including missile strikes, dirty bombs, and the aforementioned suicide bombers. They've even gone so far as to recruit a specific military squad of trained suicide forces to achieve this goal.
This latest move is either driven by desperate posturing, or a tenuous grasp of reality. Either way, it's ludicrous and infantile. Does anyone really think that a strictly peaceful nuclear program would be worth this much of a defense mechanism? Think about it.
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