Ask what's the next stop in the war on terrorism, and the A list supplied by the foreign policy chattering class is likely to go Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria. But what about Iran? Asks the New Yorker's bulldog investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, "No one, is saying anything about Iran." In a piece in this week's magazine, Hersh argues that all this speculation about Iraq is missing the real and present danger posed by Iran's long-standing efforts to build nuclear weapons. At a time when Iran's diplomatic front is all about repairing relations with the west, Hersh's sources are saying there's still a militant Shi'ite part of Iran determined to arm that nation with the bomb.
