Armstrong Williams
Friday, Jan. 20, 2006

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Iran aggressively pursues these weapons of mass destruction and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. – President George W. Bush, Jan. 29, 2002

Iran has resumed its uranium enrichment activities. The free world suspects that they're working on nuclear weapons. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently said Israel should be "wiped off the map," insists that his country wants nuclear technology for peaceful energy-producing purposes. Ahmadinejad insists that Iran needs nuclear energy to support the country's booming need for electricity, and accused the United States of acting like the "lord of the world" in denying his country this alternative source of energy.

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Let me ask you something. Why does one of the most oil-rich countries in the world need an alternative source of energy? The answer is clear. They are intent on building the bomb. The technology they're seeking, uranium enrichment, doesn't have any other purpose than to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Iran's nuclear ambitions have not been lost on the CIA, which has issued a report describing Iran as "one of the most active countries seeking to acquire [weapons of mass destruction]. ... Tehran is attempting to develop a domestic capability to produce various types of weapons – chemical, biological and nuclear – and their delivery systems."

This should frighten everyone. Iran is the leading sponsor of terror in the world, and the chief benefactor of the terrorist group Hizballah. Hizballah has become the main sponsor of terrorism in the Palestinian territories. According to Israeli intelligence, Hizballah backs at least 51 terrorist cells in the territories – 36 in the West Bank and 15 in Gaza.

Last year, Hizballah transferred around $9 million to the West Bank and Gaza for the purpose of encouraging and organizing terrorist attacks, procuring military equipment and paying terrorists and families of suicide bombers. If Iran shares nuclear technology with Hizballah, they would not hesitate to use these weapons on Israel and the West.

This is the greatest threat of nuclear proliferation facing the world right now. In a Dec. 3, 2001 article in The New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh reported that in 1995, Iran and Russia "signed an eight-hundred-million-dollar contract under which the Russians would help install a powerful reactor [at Bushehr], to be run by a Russian-Iranian team."

Hersh added that "Iran's most important nuclear production facilities are not at Bushehr ... but scattered throughout the country, at clandestine sites, under military control. The clandestine facilities have not been 'declared' – that is, they are not subject to I.A.E.A. inspection."

Hersh also reported that "Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who directed the Pakistani nuclear program from the nineteen-seventies until his retirement ... made at least one secret visit to an Iranian nuclear facility. American officials believe that he brought no actual materials with him to Iran – just his years of hands-on experience in bomb-making."

Iran has stepped up its attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. In all likelihood, they are pressing the issue now because of waning support for the war in Iraq. But this threat cannot be ignored. Iran actively supports global terrorism. If they funnel nuclear weapons to terrorists, they will be used on us.

I understand that everyone is weary over America's embattled presence in Iraq. But this is one of those critical moments where a nation must act to prevent grave harm to itself, and to the free world. The clear link between terror and weapons of mass destruction justifies action. Iran must be made aware that the international community will not tolerate its weapons program. Unless Iran expresses a genuine willingness to end its nuclear program, we must consider the use of military force to end this danger.

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