Unlike the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times has discovered cause for alarm in Iran's threat to Israel. A nation led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad needs to be kept as far from nuclear weapons as possible.... The Iranian leader has stacked his Cabinet with hard—liners but has met some resistance even from conservatives in parliament, who rejected his first three nominees for oil minister.... Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and call for destruction of Israel should sound alarms far beyond the Middle East and Europe; the U.N. needs to be ready with sanctions if Tehran refuses to yield on atomic weapons and open all its nuclear facilities to international inspections. (Read Full Post)