The director of the International Atomic Energy Association, Mohamed ElBaradei, voiced his agreement with President-elect Obama’s willingness to meet with Iran “without preconditions.” ElBaradei believes that this course of action will allow his agency, sponsored by the United Nations, more access to Iran’s nuclear information, and will eventually lead to compliance by Tehran. He states that a “[U.S.] political opening will also convince Iran to work with us to solve remaining technical issues,” which is a not-so-subtle way of saying that the U.S. is solely responsible for their agency’s inability to obtain information.

What are these remaining techinical issues that they need to solve? He later states in the interview, “We are able to verify all their declared activities; we are able to verify their enrichment program, which is a good thing. But we are still not able to move forward on clarifying some of the outstanding issues related to alleged studies that could have some linkage to a possible military dimension.”

So, they know of Iran’s capabilities to produce weapons, but they want to know if they intend to use this technology for military purposes. We must look at this from Iran’s perspective: Their president, Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly called for the annihilation of Israel (who has nuclear weapons). Why would they not want to have a nuclear defense system against its sworn nemesis? Of course they intend to use nuclear technology for military purposes; who wouldn’t?

Despite being criticized during the primary and general elections for his perceived naivite on foreign policy, Obama apparently intends to move forward with his plans to meet with national leaders in Iran, legitimizing their conditions. Reuters has reported the possibility of an Obama administration working with Iran in order to fortify the fight in Afghanistan.

Ahmadinejad and the rest of Iran are probably laughing up a storm right now. “The United States wanting to work with us, the country who has facilitated the same terrorists they are trying to kill?” is what must be going through their leadership’s mind. Iran will have never had it easier. By “working with” an Obama administration they can relieve pressure from the IAEA by convincing the agency of their pledge not to use nuclear weapons technology for nuclear weapons, and at the same time, they will be able to convince the United States that they are on the same team. All it takes is a few naive and hopeful people to believe their lie.

Iran, of whom U.S. Director of National Intelligence Admiral Michael McConnell says there is “overwhelming evidence” of their sponsoring terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, can hardly wait for this policy to take effect. They gleefully await the day for the United States to abandon Iraq and exclusively focus its efforts on Afghanistan so they can finally facilitate their own form of government in Iraq, which they have been trying to do since 1979. This will bring them one step closer to annihilating Israel, and ten steps closer to controlling the entire Middle Eastern oil supply.