Pajama Pundits

Having thumbed its collective, governmental nose at Franco-Germanic offers to supply their country with processed uranium for power production, Iran demonstrated what most other nations on Earth tend to when it becomes convenient: If the UN gets in your way, ignore it.

Resuming pre-processing conversion of uranium ore into gas, Iran broke UN seals on a facility that can begin the process for creating weapons grade (or, it must be admitted, power reactor grade) fissionable material.

The IAEA, (International Atomic Energy Agency; the UN's nuclear cops)

debated how to strongly rebuke Iran

It is devastaging sociopolitical blows like that which are at the root of the UN's staggering power to do absolutely nothing in world affairs.

Matthew Boland, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the IAEA, described the breaking of the seals as "yet another sign of Iran's disregard for international concerns."

What is sort of interesting, at least as far as this article is concerned, is this bit:

"The IAEA said in a letter to us today that it gives (the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran) permission to remove the seals and fully restart activities at the facility," Mohammad Saeedi, Iran's deputy nuclear chief, told state-run television Wednesday.

I'd be interested in hearing more about that letter.

More from Boland:

"We strongly support (Germany, Britain and France's) efforts to convince Iran to stop its dangerous activities," he said.

Okay, but Iran already refused the previous deal, and unfortunately, the world knows pretty well by now just how far the UN is willing to go. Governments tend not to be impressed by the UN's appeasement, and they aren't scared of its peacekeeping forces.

Is it a press to get a better deal from the Euros? Or is it just what the Iranians say it is, in which case, people should consider being more than just 'officially concerned'.

UPDATE: The IAEA isn't just 'officially concerned', they're 'seriously concerned'. I'm sure that makes all the difference in the world.