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Serious Response? Here It Is!

An uneasy world would very much appreciate the cessation of provocations emanating from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Neatly partnering with another world nemesis, that of North Korea. The former has not yet succeeded in fully weaponizing its powerful enemy-seeking missiles through its clandestine military-use nuclear infrastructure, posing as peaceful, energy-producing sites.

The latter has done just that, and has succeeded in amassing a number of nuclear warheads, having proven that it could, should it wish to, lob them at irritating neighbours. When North Korea was blasting its missiles into the atmosphere, Iran looked on with great interest to measure the response from the international community. North Korea, as an impoverished totalitarian state, has set a positive example of accomplishment for another.

Iran has more than justified through its pridefully belligerent claims and threats the mistrust of the world. Matters have come to a head of late, post-UN General Assembly address by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, thrilled at his statements-impact on the world stage, and the obvious nervousness the trajectory of his country's nuclear availment has had on world leaders.

Now the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany no longer slough off the potential as looming in the distant future. That potential is quite obviously - from recent revelations, along with intelligence surveillance - here and now, right on the horizon of reality. Quite as an anxious Israel has stated time and again, battling against the unwillingness of the world body to firmly intervene.

Now, the UN Security Council sternly and firmly - with the addition of Germany, and the still-uncertain support of Russia and China - demanded a "serious response" from Tehran to questions about the military threat its nuclear installations pose to the Middle East landscape, and much further abroad. Of course, Tehran's immediate response was to the effect that the latest nuclear installation was merely a 'pilot plant'.

Iran's Supreme Leader and his functionaries, in responding to these absurd demands for accountability are truly irritated at the presumptuousness of it all. Who do these clamouring countries think they are dealing with? And the response has been swift, with a demonstration of Iran's Islamist clenched fist.

Demonstrating its preparedness to respond to any provocations against their divine rule and their national heritage. The medium-range Shahab-3 missile's send-off delivered an emphatically more-than-adequate response.

Iran showed new defiance Sunday by test-firing three short-range missiles near the city of Qum.

Labels: Middle East, Technology, Terrorism

posted by Pieface @ Monday, September 28, 2009