Iran is reaching a critical milestone in its quest for a nuclear weapons capability.In the view of some experts, Iran has now enriched a sufficient quantity of uranium that it could produce a nuclear weapon if it decided to further enrich that material to weapons-grade level.

As Iran continues to defy U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.S. must lead the international community in an urgent effort of increased intensity to impose comprehensive economic, diplomatic and political sanctions to persuade Iran to turn away from this dangerous course.

An investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides strong evidence that a Syrian site bombed by Israel last year was a nuclear facility.

The IAEA concluded-based on hard evidence-that there is strong reason to believe Syria was nearing completion of a nuclear reactor.  The international community must press Syria to fully cooperate with IAEA inspectors and come clean on its illicit nuclear activity.

As President Obama is coming to the reins of power, Lebanon's survival as a multi-ethnic, multi-denominational state is more than ever at stake.

It is s fact that Iran and Syria are quickly changing the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean, while the West and moderate Arab states appear almost paralyzed and the Lebanese State is nowhere to behave like a sovereign country but a province of Syria and Iran.