Yechezkel Gordon: UN RESOLUTION ON IRAN IS PREDICTABLY SOFT AND PATHETICALLY MEANINGLESS

Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, diplomats from around the world tried to formulate a resolution to repudiate Iran for it's suspicious nuclear intentions. Sitting around a long conference table in a spacious room were the leading diplomats of the west including the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the diplomats of Russia and China.

The meeting was held in response to a report released the other week by the IAEA, indicating that they had gathered clear proof that Iran's nuclear program was not designed to produce energy for civilian use, as they claim, but rather to built a nuclear weapon.

Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, addressed the gathering. "Throughout the past three years, we have obtained additional information which gives us a fuller picture of Iran’s nuclear program and increases our concerns about possible military dimensions," he said.

"The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device," Mr. Amano said.

"I ask Iran to engage substantively" with the I.A.E.A. "without delay and provide the requested clarifications regarding possible military dimensions to its nuclear program."

Now with such clear evidence, you would expect it to be a slam dunk that the international community would issue a strong and powerful condemnation together with a new round of crippling sanctions. But this is the UN, and nothing is ever simple at the UN.

So the diplomats spent hours together passing around a pen and paper, quarreling over the weakest possible wording for the resolution. In the end Russia outdid China, turning the resolution into one big diplomatic joke that's certain to make the Iranians erupt into laughter.

According to the AP, the resolution expressed "serious concern that Iran continues to defy the requirements and obligations contained in the relevant IAEA Board of Governors and UN Security Council Resolutions." It also spoke of "deep and increasing concern about the unresolved issues regarding the Iranian nuclear program, including those which need to be clarified to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions."

Maybe we should just put Iran in time-out until they start behaving. Or threaten to take away there dessert until they promise to be our friends. I mean are you kidding me! This is what the UN expects to force Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program? No wonder the Israelis are preparing for a military strike to end this problem for once and for all.

Yechezkel Gordon: ARE YOU PREPARED FOR WAR? THE IRANIANS WON'T BE THE ONLY ONES SURPRISED BY AN IAF STRIKE

Whether you support a military strike on Iran or are against it, or you simply don't care much about it, you better be prepared for it.

Over the past few weeks there has been much speculation and debate regarding Iran and it's quest for a nuclear bomb. It originated in Israel with front page articles in the major newspapers and spread world wide when the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, released an intelligence report that Iran's nuclear aspirations go far beyond civilian purposes.

If Israel does indeed attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran and it's proxies would be expected to retaliate. That means in a worst case scenario, Hamas in the south could launch hundreds of rockets and Hezbollah could terrorize the north with it's deadly arsenal of missiles, and that's before we even mention Iran!

The Iranians have the capability to make the scud missile attack by Iraq look like child's play. It has been reported, that Iran has a vast arsenal of weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, that are within striking distance to every city in Israel. That means that even if you live in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, cities that have been relatively safe from the rocket attacks, you will now find yourself on the front lines of a dangerous war.

Now, if you were expecting one of the cars with speakers to roll down your block announcing the military strike will start at 9pm tonight, you're in for a surprise. It's not going to happen! You will be just as surprised as the Iranians will be.

And that means that the time to prepare for such an attack, is now. Does you're family know where the closest bomb shelter is? Do you have an emergency supply of food and water saved up? Do you have a radio to stay updated and informed inside the bomb shelter?

Of course we all hope and pray that the above scenario won't happen, but a little preparation now could have an enormous effect later if it does, so what's the excuse not to be prepared?