NEW IRAN URGENCY – AT 8:42 A.M. ET:  Several days ago Hillary Clinton, in a direct slap at Israel, said that the United States would place no deadlines on negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.   Essentially, that told the Iranians that they didn't have much to worry about, especially during an American election campaign.  And now comes this, from Associated Press:

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency has received new and significant intelligence over the past month that Iran has moved further toward the ability to build a nuclear weapon, diplomats tell The Associated Press.
They say the intelligence shows that Iran has advanced its work on calculating the destructive power of an atomic warhead through a series of computer models that it ran sometime within the past three years.

The diplomats say the information comes from Israel, the United States and at least two other Western countries. The time-frame is significant because if the International Atomic Energy Agency decides that the intelligence is credible, it would strengthen its concerns that Iran has continued weapons work into the recent past — and may be continuing to do so.

Because computer modeling work is normally accompanied by physical tests of the components that go into a nuclear weapons, it would also buttress IAEA fears outlined in detail in November that Tehran is advancing its weapons research on multiple fronts.

COMMENT:  That report makes Clinton's comments, undoubtedly generated by Obama himself, all the more outrageous and sickening.  We are engaged in an appeasement policy similar to that pursued by Europe in regard to Hitler's Germany in the years before World War II.

While Churchill warned in London that Germany was rearming, and was a dire threat, the Europeans, and his British countrymen, preferred to avert their eyes.  He was considered by many a deranged warmonger.

The Iranian threat is growing.  We claim to be concerned, and the president talks of sanctions.  But let us not forget that this administration opposed the very sanctions that Congress voted.  Obama, being Obama, is now taking credit for things he opposed.

The Iranian threat is growing.  We're being told that, not by our own government, but by diplomats who cannot speak for attribution, and even by the UN. 

A price will be paid for this president's behavior, but he will not be the one to pay it.

September 11,  2012