AP reports:

Both President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his rival, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, adopted a defiant tone as the world powers prepare to meet Monday in London to consider penalizing Iran for defying demands to freeze its uranium enrichment program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency reported Thursday that Iran had not only ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze the enrichment program, but had expanded that program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges. Enriched uranium fuels nuclear reactors but, enriched further, is used in nuclear bombs.

In Washington, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said he will travel to London on Monday to meet with the United States’ negotiating partners to try to draft a new resolution on Iran.

“It is effectively thumbing its nose at the international community,” he said of Iran.

Sound familiar? Saddam Hussein, R.I.P.

Meanwhile, Democrats are wasting time on non-binding resolutions for political theater, while Republican leadership continues to deal with clear and present dangers.

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1. Iran wants their cake and too eat it too, then strap-on a young one to a suicide belt and blow up people to get their jollies.

   Comment by dadeeba — February 25, 2007 @ 5:59 pm

2. Give me an effin’ break! When one country continually makes veiled threats at another country, even the internal problems will be quelled and the country stand up for itself.

   If you keep saying “we MIGHT bomb Iran” enough times, the people there, whether they hate each other or not, will band together, stand up and give you the collective middle finger.

   Is this SURPRISING at all?

   Comment by Texpundit — February 25, 2007 @ 6:35 pm

3. It seems to me that the point of the post is about Iran giving the United Nations (not the U.S.) the middle-finger (much like Saddam did), disregarding the concerns of the “global community” and moving forward to develop nukes - which represents a serious threat.

   After all, their not making “veiled threats at another country” - you’ve got Ahmadinejad publicly calling for the outright destruction of Israel.

   Indeed, that is what those people “will band together” for: their “collective” hate for Israel and the West.

   If that’s just hyperbole, then why should America be less vigorous in tone? The more Democrats increase the pacifist rhetoric and show lack of will, the more eboldened our enemies will feel.

   Comment by Scott — February 25, 2007 @ 7:10 pm

4. When Democrats win, Terrorists everywhere jump for joy that their buddies are in office.

   Comment by obama_sudama — February 25, 2007 @ 7:46 pm

5. But wait, there’s more: Ahmadinejad program faces criticism at home

   Comment by California Conservative — February 26, 2007 @ 2:05 pm