Iran, like every other nation on this planet, is entitled to a peaceful nuclear fuel program. This, the Iranians themselves have tried, time and again, to explain to a seemingly deaf UN.

But this world body can be forgiven, because being under pressure from the world's most paranoid nation, the United States of America, it has become a virtual fun tool. Under continuous humiliation by the US, the UN has no glory left to attract respect from other countries.

When they make pronoucements, US presidents do so with evident disregard for the world body. For instance: "You are either with us or you are against us", a fairly recent coinage of George W Bush. Pronouncements of these nature weaken the UN, as they depict it as being under the direct control of the 'almighty' US Congress. And as far as we know, the UN is nothing but an amalgamation of nation states with the sovereign right to self determination.

America also has a history of fighting proxy wars. And whenever it does so, it backs itself up with excuses that portray it as the only country in the world susceptible to even the smallest of security threats. This has undoubtedly earned it the fitting title of the world's policeman. It seeks to achieve its goals along the lines of a bullish arrogant attitude. No wonder then about the number of enemies it has gained over the years.

The feud between the US and Iran has far less to do with the safety of the world (as the former persistently claims) than its embedded, obssessed urge for world domination. It is under the strongest conviction that in order to maintain this 'unmatched' suppremacy, it must ensure that riotous states it often labels as 'rogue' or 'failed', do not get close to it.

And its bullying tactics, as confusing as they are strange, often make this possible. For example the animosity between the two beligerents can be traced to attempts by Islamic Socialist prime minister Muhammad Sadeque, to nationalise the Iranian oil industry in the 1950s. The British and Americans forseeing the economic threats this might have on their countries, instigated a revolt that saw the overthrow of Sadeque's government, and the instalment of the corrupt and ineptitude Shah Regime.

The 1979 revolution saw the overthrow of the Shah and the restoration of the Islamic establishment led by Ayatollah Khomeini. Many people believe that this is the reason for the bad blood between the American-British alliance and Iranian relations.

As its animosity is mostly directed at the Arab world, at least so it seems, its actions have been repeatedly interpreted (rightly or wrongly, only God knows) as religious crusade.

This is even more fueled by the consistent habit of open involvment of the state of Israel by both sides. Americans, as well as their Israeli cousins, will hardly forget the Iranian President, Mohammed Ahmadinajad's call for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth. And Mr Bush had himself categorically stated that America's hostility to Iran was especially justifiable because Iran hated Israel.

But despite its strongly manifested authoritarian tendencies against the innocent and weak Palestine, nobody wants to mention Israel's open-secret possession of nuclear weapons. And today, the world is being forced to believe that Iran is a dangerous nation, that Iran has opted to enrich uranium with the intention of developing nuclear weapons, even though the gulf state has sort repeatedly to clear itself of the accusation.

And unlike Iran, North Korea's adamance has attracted quite an accommodating attitude from an America it has on countless occasions threatened to use its weapons of mass destruction against. Even the recent US intelligence report that cleared Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons could not deter the hawkish Bush administration from taking its hardline path. This leaves the world in a confused state as to what the US wants from Iran.