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Iran Must Finally Pay a Price

[Wall Street Journal] Fouad Ajami - Three decades of playing cat-and-mouse with American power have emboldened Iran's rulers. We have played by their rules, and always came up second best. The low-level warfare against American soldiers in Iraq by Shiite groups - aided and abetted by Iran - may be responsible for hundreds of American deaths. The hope entertained a year ago, that Iran would refrain from playing with fire in Iraq, has shown to be wishful thinking. Iran's nuclear ambitions are of a wholly different magnitude. But before we tackle that Persian menace, the Iranian theocrats will have to be shown that there is a price for their transgressions.
2008-05-06 01:00:00
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