Iran unsettles the West

After a failed mediation attempt at the Munich Security Conference, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the production of highly enriched uranium. Yet another defeat for the foreign policy of the West, writes the daily Der Standard: "The political fallout from this weekend will be considerable. ... The West is reacting to this challenge with uncertainty and self-doubt. And although big, the nuclear dispute with Iran is not the only imponderability of international politics at the start of this decade, as last year was not exactly crowned with foreign policy successes. The management of the Afghanistan war was largely paralysed by the crisis over the fraudulent reelection of President Hamid Karzai; the US and its new president have failed to chalk up a single success regarding the Middle East, the 'new start' to Russian-American relations or the disarmament of North Korea."

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