Plain spoken as usual, and with the force of his example in Afghanistan and Iraq (not to mention the overarching global Terrorism War) lending ethos to his words, President Bush warned Iran yesterday:

"The free world is working together to send a very clear message: 'Don't develop a nuclear weapon.'"

Likeminded Secretary of State Rice has said much the same thing, couched in slightly more diplomatic language.

Meanwhile, swinging blindly at the forces of history, the facist mullahs of that benighted land proclaim that interlopers will face the cliched "burning hell" of boilerplate moslem extremist rhetoric.