Deadline

it's shit or get off the pot today for iran -- will it or won't it comply with the UN security council's demand it cease production of enriched uranium? if ahmadinejad and his mantrain refuse to comply, the planned response is military and/or economic sanctions. smashing. that worked so well before.

meanwhile, guess who's blogging now?! the great Satan-hater himself! ahmadinejad's blog was live for only a couple days before it got hacked by Y! Underground Group which you'd love to believe is a junky, subversive LA crew but is actually an irananian group arguing FOR iran's right to proliferate nucularly.

Nuclear Energy is Our Right claimed the Y. the body of the message continues in farsi. if yours is a little rusty, i've provided the translation below:

jenabe Ahmadi Nejad	Tell me, O muse,
ma ke nemitoonim shomaro molaghat konim	of that ingenious hero
vali az tarafe tamame hacker haye iran	who travelled far and wide
azinke az haghe melate iran dar barabare tamame	after he had sacked the famous town of Troy
keshvar haye jahan defa mikonid tashakor mikonim	meow
azinke ba hemato talashe khod abadi va abadani ra	Many cities did he visit,
baraye mahroom avardin jaye tashakor dare	and many were the nations
omid varim	he beat the crap out of
ta akharin nafas az Energy hasteyi ke hagh	goddam axis of evil
mosalame tamame mardome irane	more salami please
defa konid	meow

really, i think nothing good can come of UN sanctions and our moral blustering. the issue isn't nuclear proliferation -- or else cheney would clamor about india and pakistan -- it's the fact that iran's a hostile regime, and sanctions won't do a thing about that.