[Telegraph-UK] Editorial - The casual contempt with which Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rejected Kofi Annan's attempt to mediate in the stand-off over Teheran's nuclear ambitions is alarming. The UN is in danger of becoming an expensive irrelevance, feebly led and increasingly ill-fitted for the job of policing the international community. As the impasse with Iran continues, we inch ever closer to the frightening prospect of a fundamentalist state at the heart of the world's most volatile region acquiring nuclear weapons. It is inconceivable that Washington will allow Iran to become a nuclear power. That simple fact should spur the UN into making a more serious effort to bring President Ahmadinejad to heel.
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