Several items show a continuing and escalating concern is in order concerning the Piss Peace loving Persian sons of the Profit (alleged) Prophet.

Iran Gov’t Shuts Down Newspaper, Magazine
“Free press? We don’t need no stinking free press!”

Iran closed a daily newspaper and a magazine, one of the publications said Tuesday, in a stiffening crackdown on the press. Iran’s hard-line judiciary has closed down more than 100 pro-democracy publications in the past five years on vague charges of insulting religious sensibilities or top clerics. Since the election of ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the government has given the judiciary a free hand to prosecute its crackdown against the media, which began in 2000.

Iran Says It Will Resume Nuclear Fuel Research

Iran said today that it will resume nuclear fuel research, and appeared to toughen its bargaining position on a Russian proposal meant to head off a showdown with the United States and Europe over Tehran’s nuclear program. Iranian officials in recent weeks have given contradictory signals about their willingness to accept a compromise in the long-running dispute. Both announcements today represented a swing toward a harder line and could increase the likelihood of confrontation.

The message: “Hey, what’s the beef about? Without this how can we turn Tel Aviv into a glass bowl…er…develop into a real nuclear power…er…we mean really develop our nuclear power…never mind…we’re doing what we want to anyway!”

The Iranian official who announced the decision, Mohammad Saidi, vice president of Iran’s Atomic Organization, said that the nuclear research, to begin on Monday, would be carried out “in cooperation and coordination with the I.A.E.A.” and would not involve the enrichment of uranium, a step necessary for the production of nuclear weapons.

“We’re not doing anything, just learning how to and setting up to do it. Nothing to see, nothing to worry about, you infidel pigs!”

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in a statement that he would bee seeking more details about the research. He also reminded Iran that the suspension had been an important step toward restoring its reputation.

WHAT reputation?

There’s more, but you get the drift. Two more related reports – what good is a nuclear weapon without a way to deliver it? The happy mullahs have thought of everything:

Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile
Intelligence report says Iran seeks nuclear bomb: report

Both of these refer to the same Euro joint intelligence assessment, that has leaked out, no doubt much to the chagrin of the Eurabian politicians who want to do just ANYTHING rather than face up to the fact of their own dhimmitude.

It’s worth noting that one of these is from the UK’s Guardian, which is certainly no stronghold of pro-western imperialism!

The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country’s weapons programmes.

Scientists in Tehran are also shopping for parts for a ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe, with “import requests and acquisitions … registered almost daily”, the report seen by the Guardian concludes.

Let’s see now. Bomb. Missile. All that’s needed is the target…oh yeah, their President Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad Ahmadinejad has already solved that:

Governments in the west and elsewhere have also been dismayed by recent pronouncements from the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said that Holocaust denial is a “scientific debate” and that Israel should be “wiped off the map”.

OK now. Imagine it’s 1936. The Rhineland has just been re-militarized by Der Fuhrer’s 3rd Reich in violation of treaties which give you the right to intervene militarily. You know that at present Das Reich has not rebuilt it’s military enough to resist you successfully, but is working for that goal 24-7. Your response to protect lives and maintain peace is….hopefully better than that of the Brits and Frogs back then.

The same thing is staring us in the face, albeit in a new form. Which way will we turn?

Whether we want to admit it or not, we are rapidly reaching what looks like a true pivotal point of history – and nothing less than the survival of western civilization may be at stake.

IF YOU CANNOT FIGHT FOR RIGHT WHEN YOU CAN EASILY WIN WITHOUT BLOODSHED; IF YOU WILL NOT FIGHT WHEN YOUR VICTORY WILL BE SURE AND NOT TOO COSTLY; YOU MAY COME TO THE MOMENT WHEN YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGHT WITH ALL ODDS AGAINST YOU AND ONLY A PRECARIOUS CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. THERE MAY BE A WORSE FATE. YOU MAY HAVE TO FIGHT WHEN THERE IS NO HOPE OF VICTORY, BECAUSE IT IS BETTER TO PERISH THAN TO LIVE AS SLAVES. – Sir Winston Churchill

Read and heed. History can be a tough teacher!