News from the radioactive mullahs in Iran:

The NY Times reports on Iran’s latest success in pulling the wool over the eyes of our European allies about their nuke program. Desperate to avoid a confrontation at the UN over the radioactive mullah’s efforts to build nuclear weapons, the allies gave Iran an open invitation to cheat on the recently signed agreement that had Iran promising not to enrich uranium:

“The breakthrough between the Europeans and Iran came after Iran suggested a change in the resolution that would more specifically reflect the positive step Iran was taking in suspending its enrichment program, both Mr. Mousavian and a senior European official said. In exchange, Iran abandoned its demand to operate the centrifuges for research.

Mr. Mousavian said the 20 centrifuge machines would not be sealed but placed under camera surveillance, a face-saving move that the I.A.E.A. said would be acceptable in terms of its monitoring capacity.”

It may be interesting to note that the North Korean’s nuke facilities were also placed under camera surveillance…which didn’t stop Kim & Co. from building their own nuclear toys.

Since the agreement was reached last Wednesday, Iran has gone back on some of its provisions three times; each time requiring the Europeans to scramble to save the accord before they were forced to go before the UN and declare Iran in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement. For the EU, this situation just wouldn’t do. After all, it would be rather awkward to develop trade and commercial projects in Iran worth billions of Euros if the mullahs were so impolite as to openly flaunt their violation of non-proliferation treaties.

It’s pretty obvious that Iran is pushing the outside of the envelope of this agreement to see how far they can go in violating it before the EU puts its foot down. Obligingly, the Europeans have let the mullahs walk all over them, taking advantage of the EU’s reluctance for confrontation.

As I’ve written before, the EU will use this agreement as a fig leaf excuse NOT to take action against Iran when it becomes necessary to confront the mullahs over their nuclear program. It appears that when this confrontation occurs—probably later next year—the US will once again have to go it alone.

And in other news from the Muslim paradise:

Chad Evans at Backcountry Conservative has an interesting post linking this AP story regarding some unusual recruitment efforts by representatives of the religion of peace.

Not content with building weapons of mass destruction, the mullahs recently held a job fair for terrorists. Specifically, they went head hunting for suicide bombers.

The twist on this particular recruiting drive is, like any good employer, the murderous thugs who currently rule Iran gave their top prospects a choice of working conditions:

“The 300 men filling out forms in the offices of an Iranian aid group were offered three choices: Train for suicide attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq, for suicide attacks against Israelis or to assassinate British author Salman Rushdie.”

And please use a no.2 pencil to record your answers…

Chad makes this excellent point:

Iran has been a spur in our sides inside of Iraq and nothing has been done in regards to this. The United States has let Iran continue to undermine Democracy in the Middle East without even as much as stern words. The Mullahs of Iran have a legitimate right to fear Democracy in the Middle East which is the main reason they have supported terrorism and people like al Sadr because they fear Democracy in Iraq will cross the border to Iran.

I have no doubt that part of the problem Chad alludes to is that PM Allawi can’t afford to antagonize Iran and has told Bush he’ll deal with the problem. According to Chad there are talks to close the border between Iran and Iraq which would help in stemming the flow of terrorists. But until the Iraqi people start getting serious about their own security, I doubt that much of a dent will be made in these suicide attacks on Iraqis and our own troops.