If even Mohamed ElBaradei—director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—says that the "international community" is "losing patience" with Iran over its nuclear program, well, the mullahs must really be out of line

National Review, Dec 31, 2005

If even Mohamed ElBaradei--director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize--says that the "international community" is "losing patience" with Iran over its nuclear program, well, the mullahs must really be out of line. Let's do a little summing up.

There was President Ahmadinejad's recent comment that if the Holocaust had happened--which, naturally, it didn't--the Zionist entity ought to exist on European rather than Middle Eastern soil. (It was rather sporting of him to grant the Jews a place on somebody's map, seeing as he'd previously called for them to be wiped off the map simpliciter.) Then there was the meeting of the Iranian foreign minister with the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah--for the noble purpose of coordinating a united front against Israel. Anything else? Oh yes: that whole nuclear-weapons thing. ElBaradei says that if Iran starts enriching uranium--something it gives every signal of intending to do--it could have a bomb within months. It's time to abandon once and for all the fiction that the mullahs can be negotiated with, and devote ourselves instead to removing them from power.