Iran on board?
From DEBKA.

Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri, who flew to Tehran Sunday, September 29 to seek support against Washington, was coldly informed by President Mohamed Khatami that Iran wanted the entire Persian Gulf free of weapons of mass destruction. On his way out, the Iraqi minister almost bumped into Kuwait’s defense minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak al-Hamad, who arrived on a diametrically opposed errand: a two-day conference with his Iranian opposite number, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, on “collective security”.

According to DEBKAfile’s sources in Tehran, the two defense ministers have been assigned by the US war command to line up their military front against Iraq.

Iran’s still secret about-face gives substantial ballast to the anti-Saddam Arab-Muslim alliance put together by the Bush team and offers a rebuttal for much of the criticism of an American military move against Baghdad coming from the Democrats in the US Congress, the Europeans led by France and Germany and the UN secretariat under Kofi Annan. Many critics claim to speak for the Arab Middle East and Persian Gulf. Now that the strongest Gulf power, Iran, has crossed the floor – and is not the first to do so - President George W. Bush can claim a regional coalition weightier than the one which confronted Iraq in 1991.

If this is true, there should not be one vote against the latest Congressional resolution. They have no excuses left to hide behind.