(Toronto Sun) Salim Mansur - The world must ask, can it risk a religiously autocratic Iran, which stifles democracy at home and promotes terrorism abroad, acquiring nuclear capability? If the world fails to stop Iran, nuclear proliferation will receive a boost, and countries such as Hugo Chavez's Venezuela will be next to push forward with their nuclear ambitions. It is inevitable that another "coalition of the willing" will have to dispatch Iran's nuclear ambition (just as Saddam's was eliminated by Israel in 1981), unless the Security Council acquires new resolve to hold Tehran accountable to IAEA safeguards. The world seems to be similarly situated as it was in the 1930s. Then Hitler, like Ahmadinejad today, made public his views of what he intended to do, and European powers took him to be a clown - only to discover the clown was lethal.
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