Steve Forbes - Action Against Iran Crucial

Since 01-01-06

Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes has issued a dire warning: Iran's soon-to-be-successful push for nuclear weapons poses an "increasingly mortal threat to our safety."

Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, writes in his Fact and Comment column that Iran's looming nuclear capability is especially frightening because its new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "lethally delusional."

He is obsessed with the Mahdi, the expected Messiah of Muslim tradition, who is to return just before Judgment Day. Ahmadinejad believes he must prepare the way for his reappearance, according to Forbes.

The Iranian leader has also insisted that the Holocaust never occurred and that Israel should be wiped off the map.

Russia is attempting to convince Tehran not to go nuclear. But at the same time, Moscow recently agreed to sell Iran an advanced weapons system that can destroy incoming missiles and laser-guided bombs.

A nuclear Iran would be an "immense setback" in the war against Islamic fanaticism and could lead to an Iranian-encouraged overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, Forbes warns.

"Is military action the only alternative?" he writes. "Yes, unless somehow internal Iranian pressures (the mullahs are despised by most Iranians), as well as international pressures, force either a fundamental change in this fascist theocracy or its actual overthrow ...

"But time is running short."

Forbes laments that the Bush administration has done next to nothing to persuade the American public about the possible need for stern measures.

But he concludes: "Thankfully President Ahmadinejad's consistent public statements on the 'myth' of the Holocaust will make clear to not only us but also the European masses and elites that this regime poses an increasingly mortal threat to our safety, that European-style diplomacy (a mechanism for doing nothing) is no longer viable."

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