Iran near the point of no return....

Here's a report from the New York Times on Sharon's meeting with Bush, where he showed Bush some aerial photos of Iranian nuclear facilities...

While American and Israeli officials insisted Tuesday that they were in total agreement about the nature of the Iranian threat, Israel has interpreted the evidence that the two countries share in what one official called "the worst-case scenario." In describing the Iranians as on the cusp of a "point of no return," officials said, Mr. Sharon was arguing to Mr. Bush that once Iran solves some remaining technical hurdles, there will be no effective way of stopping it from ultimately building a weapon - even if that day is years away.

"This can't be delayed much longer," a senior Israeli official traveling in Mr. Sharon's party said Tuesday. "There is very little time until the point of no return is reached."

The Americans have a different view of the risk....however, at the end of the article is another piece of interesting news..

Recently the new president of the Ukraine, Viktor A. Yushchenko, said his government had discovered evidence that the country's previous leadership secretly sold to Iran and China cruise missiles that can carry a nuclear warhead. Iran has denied it made any such purchases.

I worry that the US is letting the Europeans take way too much of a lead role in tackling the problem in Iran.