According to Walter Russell Mead's article, A Darker Shadow Than Iraq, America's usual suspects, the Iraq's, have settled down under the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, allowing room for America's new and upcoming threat, Iran. The Israelis are currently preoccupied with negotiating a possible coalition government and the Palestinians consumed by political calamity, the likely hood of these Middle Eastern countries posing as a current international threat is very unlikely. What we are currently faced with is the "building and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction in violation of international obligations and harboring and cooperating with terrorists," all of which Iran is linked with and Hussein is blamed for.
             The United States has dealt with Iran's efforts in becoming nuclear in a very peaceful manner in the hopes of increased cooperation, but unfortunately this tactic has failed. The pressures of Europe, Russia and the US on Iran have yet to persuade them to reassure the world of their nuclear intentions. Until we are reassured of their intentions we can only assume that Iran's nuclear intentions remain as they were in a statement given by former Iranian President Hashemi
             Mead, Walter Russell."A Darker Shadow Than Iraq."
             Los Angeles Times 25 July 2004:MI,6.
             Rafsanjani, which discusses the nuclear weapons Iran hopes to build that, will produce damages to the Muslim world and Israel.
             While the Bush administration is unenthusiastic about going into another war, they are left with very few options. On the other hand many scholars argue that nuclear weapons can make regimes more responsible. Although it is unclear how the Kerry administration is going to deal with this issue there is an intense amount of pressure on the Kerry White house. Iran, who has been associated with terrorists who want to destroy the US and also responsible for threats towards a genocidal strike against Israel, is not neces...