A "NEW CHANCE" FOR IRAN.

Iran must not be declared a bastard case as yet, as it has allowed new talks to take place between the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iranian officials.

It would be understandable that it is feeling the pinch of the sanctions that the United States and it allies are spearheading at the U.N., and that something must be done to buffer the two situations; the nuclear ambition, which is a threat to its neighbors, on one hand and its erratic idiosyncrasies in the region to close the Strait of Hormuz, with military exercises to booth, on the other.

With all that is the Syrian conflict, where Assad is getting a great deal of support from Iran for religious reasons, and that can turn into a sectarian or civil war and cause the whole of the Middle East to be involved in an enormous conflagration.

The rest of the world will not sit idly by, particularly, in the midst of Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon, through its uranium enrichment program cloaked in strict secrecy. The only thing that must be done to ensure any kind of safety for other countries and especially Iran's arch enemy, Israel, will be to take out its nuclear facilities one by one, which Israel is prepared to do.

The U.S. is staving off a preemptive attack on Iran, not for the fear of it, but for the sake of peace that can easily come out of all the commotion, if Iran will be sensible enough to realize that, any attempt to disrupt the peace in the region will not be in its favor.

The only result will be to engulf the world in a nuclear warfare, in which there will be no winners, but all will be losers; as it will create a tumultuous bombshell that will affect every human being on earth.

Iran has been warned many times that it cannot play it both ways, to arm itself with "the bomb" and to co-exist peacefully with others; and if it is feeling any type of isolation, it is because of its own refusal to be part of the world community. By behaving in an acceptable, conventional and sensible manner, it will be welcome into the comity of nations, or else, it will have problems.

In other words, the differentiation between Iran and its counterpart members in the U.N. is due to its actions that are far from being friendly toward its neighbors; because in this day and age, a threat to one nation is a threat to all nations.

It will have Russia and China defending its behavior, but that is only temporary, as both countries are seriously involved in the economic and political well being of their own people, more than engaging in a standoff with the U.S. and its allies, who have a great majority of the U.N. membership on their side.

Iran will lose big time, if it will rely on the hope that another country, like Russia or China, will systematically come to its aid to confront the world. For they themselves have issues that are prevalent for them to handle, which will be in the best interests of their people, than sending their armies to a war that will have no end, on behalf of another country.

Iran will be wise, to cease and desist from its tomfoolery, and to have meaningful talks with the IAEA officials, and to come up with tangible responses to their (IAEA officials') inquiries to their satisfaction. They (officials) will then have something good to say about Iran, to put the many anxieties about that country to rest.

Or any negative responses on the part of Iran will increase the unfavorable risk the world is taking with it; that it (Iran) is up to no good and therefore it must be stopped before it is too late.

Iran must therefore not attept to misuse or abuse this new chance.