Terrorism Tehran-style

Through their support for Hezbollah, "mainstream" Islamic leaders cannot avoid the suggestion that all Jews, everywhere and anywhere, are legitimate targets for violence. Could it be that some Muslim moderates in Australia aren't quite so moderate after all?

Iran's past complicity in terrorism throughout the world only underscores the danger posed by the Islamic republic's aggressive weapons of mass destruction program. It is frightening enough when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for a global conflagration of fire and brimstone to hasten the coming of the Mahdi - the Islamic "expected one".

But the real beauty of nukes in the eye of rogue state beholders is that these weapons can be used without being used. The destructiveness of nuclear arms provides a substantial measure of military and political immunity to the nations that possess such weaponry. And by passing through the atomic threshold, a similar mantle of inviolability would descend upon the shoulders of the "mullahcracy" that runs Iran.

The regime in Tehran would be able to get away with all sorts of deadly mischief in pursuit of its belligerent dream of hegemony over the Persian Gulf.