At last!! A sensible article on Iran's nuclear programme. And from the UK Independent too, phew..I was afraid it had gone the way of the Guardian and Juan Cole.

Adrian Hamilton: Rhetoric against Iran must be cooled for sake of the Middle East

Some choice bits; "Well, even taking into account our Prime Minister's desire to push himself to the forefront of international events to impress voters, this is verging on hyperbole, and will do little to improve the tenor of talks between Iran and the members of the Security Council, plus Germany on 1 October."

"The admission by Tehran of its covert enrichment facility – incidentally known to Western intelligence for some time and produced at this point presumably with the purpose of loading the pressure on the talks – is certainly an embarrassment to the regime but doesn't prove the case either way.

Given the way that the US under President Bush and Israel have openly threatened to bomb its facilities, it is not surprising that it should choose to back up its programme with secondary facilities. Nor is it that easy to dismiss the protestations of its leaders that nuclear weapons would be against the religious principles of the Islamic Republic.

Just as Israel has based its security on perceived threats from its Arab neighbours, so Iran's attitude has been forged by the constant assaults of its neighbours and the West."-Independent online

Enjoy people. It's not often you get this amount of sense written about Iran in the press these days.