Iran has vowed to launch its first functional nuclear missile at Israel. "The young and God-believing [followers of Allah and Mohammad] Iranian scientists managed to achieve a 60 percent enriched uranium product. I congratulate the brave nation on this success." Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823