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Iran Has Waged War Against the U.S. Since 1979
(U.S. News) Mortimer B. Zuckerman - The peril increases daily that Iran will become a nuclear power. Arab leaders are as alarmed as Israel. The West is behaving as if it has all the time in the world. It does not. The year-end 2009 deadline set by the West for resolving the Iranian nuclear issue came and went and nothing happened. Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, does not want a seat at the negotiating table with the great powers, he wants to overturn the table. He is a messianic revolutionary. A nuclear Iran, already a neighborhood bully, would export its revolutionary ideology and destabilize the Middle East. It would sabotage any dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. From an American point of view, the issue is not just the nuclear program. It is the hostile intentions of a regime that since 1979 has waged war persistently against the United States and its allies. We must impose an embargo even more extensive than the one we imposed on Cuba at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. This would include a ban on the sale or purchase of products or services to or from Iran, a ban on all financial transactions of any kind with Iranians for their businesses, a ban on all travel to and from Iran, and more. This policy must make it absolutely clear that any companies or individuals who violate the embargo will be banned from doing business with the U.S.