The United Nations must urgently impose economic sanctions on Iran for continuing its nuclear program before the world wakes up to a nuclear nightmare, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday.
"The issue of Iran should be immediately transferred to the United Nations and sanctions imposed on Iran," Shalom told a group of Jewish parliamentarians from around the world meeting in Jerusalem.
The foreign minister noted that Israeli experts believe that Iran was six months away from acquiring the know-how to make a nuclear bomb, warning the world that "time was running out" and that there was "no more time for games" in dealing with the critical issue of Iran's nuclear program.
Don't hold your breath that the UN will do anything meaningful.
Meanwhile, even ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, has run out of patience.
"We will remove the seals and we have announced that we are ready to start research from tomorrow," a foreign ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, said yesterday. "It depends on the IAEA to announce its readiness as this will take place under the agency's supervision," he added.
However, Mr ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, disputed Tehran's assertion that 90 per cent of issues related to the resumption of research had been solved.
"I am running out of patience, the international community is running out patience, the credibility of the verification process is at stake and I'd like - by March - which is when my next report is, to be able to clarify these issues," he said.
Shortly after that Iran will have a nuke.
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