There was some good news yesterday: We're probably not going to war with Iran.
The latest NIE report showed that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in late 2003, vindicating what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been saying. Ahmadinejad has maintained from his election in 2005 that Iran's nuclear program is for power and that pursuing the bomb is "illegal and against our religion."
Ahmadinejad, in his usual style, seized on the moment to position Iran as the international foil:
"This is a declaration of victory for the Iranian nation against the world powers over the nuclear issue," Ahmadinejad told thousands of people during a visit to Ilam province in western Iran.
"This was a final shot to those who, in the past several years, spread a sense of threat and concern in the world through lies of nuclear weapons," Ahmadinejad said, drawing celebratory whistles from the crowd.
There is still the issue of Iranian Revolutionary Guard being designated as a terrorist organization and that Iran is a "state sponsor of terrorism" and an inaugural member of the Axis of Evil, but one has to wonder what else is going on internally in that country that we may be completely missing.
And we're just pointing it out, but it isn't it interesting that Iran halted its nuclear program after an American army invaded Iraq on the suspicion of weapons of mass destruction...
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