Nuclear Showdown With Iran by Eric Margolis

Iran has thrown down the gauntlet to the US and EU by resuming uranium enrichment laboratory tests. Tehran is not heeding a mounting chorus of warnings from its foes in the west and even its friends in Moscow.

"We won’t be bullied," said Iran’s Persident, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, who denied Iran has nuclear ambitions and insisted his nation had every right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium to produce electrical power.