Only a regime change can defuse Iran

Iran is making good on its threat and has started to enrich its uranium to 20 percent. The press sees only one way out of this predicament: "Our best hope at putting an end to the quarrelling with Iran is a change of regime. This is what the West should be working towards. Europe and the US have two peaceful means ... at their disposal: full support for the opposition movement and targeted sanctions against the regime, and above all against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Even if the regime were toppled there would be no guarantee that Iran would dispense with its nuclear programme. Everyone knows that opposition leader [Mir Hossein] Mousavi, for example, has spoken out in favour of the nuclear option. But there would at least be the possibility of a more responsible government coming to power, one that is open to reasonable arguments and at least doesn't pass on its nuclear materials to extremist allies like Hamas or Hizbollah."

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