Appeasement As Per Usual

The UN's toothless, feckless nuclear watchdog is set to release its most wide-ranging report yet re Iran's nukes. The report is expected to reveal

fresh evidence of research and other activities with little other application than atomic bomb-making, including studies linked to the development of an atom bomb trigger and computer modeling of a nuclear weapon

and you know what that means: all the world players will revert to type. The U.S. and EU will "push for harsher sanctions"; Russia and China will try to stonewall them; and Iran will proceed on its merry way, claiming "its nuclear program is aimed at producing electricity," meanwhile weaponizing stuff like crazy. And the world will move that much closer to the nightmare scenario of an atomic Ayatollah and a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv.