I’ve been telling anyone who will listen for over a year now that messing around with Iran is a dangerous chess game.

Today the IAEA released a report on Iran’s nuclear program, and the verdict? It’s time for sanctions immediately if not sooner.

Per Vital Perspective, who obtained the report:

“We’ve just received a copy of the IAEA report being distributed to diplomats at the UN today on Iran’s nuclear program. Read the whole IAEA report exclusively here on Vital Perspective. As Sean McCormack, spokesman for the State Department said today, over the past three months Iran has “continued along the pathway to developing a nuclear weapon, continued in their defiance of the international community.”

The IAEA report details the progress that Iran has achieved, noting the continued testing of P-1 centrifuges with UF6 and the installation of a second 164-centrifuge cascade. It also details Iran’s continued stonewalling and lack of cooperation with the IAEA. According to the report, Iran has not made any new information available on their P-1 and P-2 centrifuge programs. Iran has not provided a copy of a 15-page document describing procedures for the reduction of UF6 to uranium metal, which is critical to understanding the full scope of offers made by ‘foreign intermediaries.’ Iran has not been forthcoming with clarification on is plutonium separation experiments. Iran has not issued multiple entry visas to weapons inspectors on time. Iran refuses to discuss Project Green Salt, address verification and transparency issues, suspend enrichment related activities or act in accordance with the Additional Protocol. As a result, the IAEA still cannot make a determination as to the nature of the Iranian nuclear program.”

Make no mistake, Iran is well on the way to developing a nuclear weapon. While sanctions are welcome, the simple fact that there is going to be no way to evidentually rule out military force - either unilaterally, or by a coalition, but one way or another there must be regime change.

I know Iran, it was my job in the early/mid eighties to keep tabs on them. They were aiding and abetting terrorists - with using Hizbollah in the 1983 Marine Barracks attack, all the way to the Khobar Towers to the present where they are using Hezbollah against Israel.

Forget all Ahmadinejad’s nonsense about “peaceful nuclear use”, bull crap! Iran needs “peaceful nuclear” power like Al Capone needed booze for “medicinal purposes”.

I’m skimming the IAEA, but it’s really clear that the time to act is NOW.