Feb 11,  2010 - The President of Iran, Ahmadi-nejad  has claimed a political victory not only for himself but for the supporters of the Ayatollah and the Islamic Guard by announcing Iran as a Nuclear State- The announcement comes during the 31st year after the current regime overthrew the Shah (King) of Iran and serves to entrench the often hostile Islamic party in the seat of  government despite the efforts of a possibly dwindling majority vote against Ahmadi-nejad and the Ayatollah's followers.

While Ahmadi-nejad has openly insisted the use of the Nuclear Technology is for peaceful purposes, there are still tensions between Iran and UN skeptics- Iran has openly lied in the past regarding issues from Human Rights to Social Conditions... as well as Presidential ties to Palestinian Terror Groups such as Hezbollah... and possibly.... other International Criminal Organizations.

Reports indicate sanctions being levied on the regime to curb the construction of Nuclear Facilities.

Few reports regarding Ahmadi-nejad's open pledge to allow transparency in Iran's Nuclear Program have been published.

Ahmadi-nejad himself has made several declarations indicating possible conformity to UN regulations including transparency:

"'We have the capability to enrich uranium more than 20 percent or 80 percent but we don't enrich (to this level) because we don't need it," he said. "When we say we do not manufacture the bomb, we mean it, and we do not believe in manufacturing a bomb. If we wanted to manufacture a bomb we would announce it.'"

- Ahmadi-nejad - Yahoo News AP

These declarations may be nothing more than chauvenistic pompousness on the part of the regime leader who openly antagonizes the The US President, Barack Obama, in spite of the fact there is no American Diplomatic Agency in the country of Iran.

For the time being, it seems the Iranian President has been able to strike an un-nerving accord with the Iranian people... if only for the duration of the mania that accompanies the typical Islamic zealotry.... but fanaticism, it seems, will only go so far as the Iranian President's past and current affiliations may or may not label him a criminal.

Either way the situation seems to be precarious as America is so far removed from Iran and the Ayatollah's regime as to render sanctions a matter of political co-operation instead of directly effecting the Iranian economy.

Of course there is always the question of how much do we really care.