OK, you won't see this headline but effectively this is what is going on. The best way to ensure the success and popularity of the Holocaust-denying religious extremist heading up the Iranian state is for the west to threaten and bully the Iranian state.
The Iranians have done nothing wrong. Their nuclear industry was inspected at will by the IAEA until the west started to threaten them. There is still no evidence that they intend to build a bomb but it would be understandable if they did, given that Israel already has nuclear weapons. Jack Straw's explanation for this double standard ? Its OK for Israel to have them because they never signed up to the non-proliferation treaty. Iran did so they must be held to account. This moron, on the rare occasions when he makes a public appearance is our face to the world.
I'd like to see how the US would react if the IAEA turned up one morning at one of the secret nuclear bases in the Nevada desert and demanded unrestricted access(you can go on a virtual tour of an abandoned US nuclear base here).
Britain has a particular nerve in accusing Iran of hiding a weapons programme behind a civil programme - this is precisely what Britain was doing (see here for instance) when the Queen opened the first nuclear power station at Calder Hall in Cumberland in 1956.
I don't want any nuclear weapons or indeed any nuclear fission power plants. We've already got more of both than Iran could even contemplate developing. We need to put our own house in order and stop ressurecting nineteenth century imperialism.