The world wants Iran to stop

摘要

If the barrage of threats and recriminations it fired off this week is any measure, Iran's nuclear defiance can only strengthen when the un Security Council takes up its case. That could be as early as next week. Yet the volume and pitch of Iran's displeasure-threatening "harm and pain", particularly to America, if Iran itself starts feeling the squeeze-is also a measure of its failure to convince not only hated America, but also the Europeans and its erstwhile allies Russia and China that, despite two decades of lies and cover-ups, its nuclear intentions are as peaceful as it claims.