Iran’s ayatollahs need to understand that if they persist with the illegal enrichment of uranium, their country will pay a heavy price.
Yesterday’s decision by European Union foreign ministers to implement a wide-ranging oil embargo against Iran represents a welcome show of unity by an organisation that, in the past, has been deeply divided on the fraught issue of Tehran’s nuclear programme. While countries such as Britain and France have taken a robust approach, others – such as Germany, which has extensive trading ties with the ayatollahs’ regime – have been more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Consequently, the Iranians have concluded that Europe is not serious about preventing them from achieving their nuclear goals, and have pressed ahead with their quest for the means to make an atomic bomb.
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