In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today his government is nearing the “final step” in developing its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad did not provide details. He’s already announced Iran will celebrate its “right to nuclear technology” by the end of the Iranian year in March. His comments come two days after an unidentified senior U.S. official told the Reuters news agency the Bush administration would be open to bombing North Korea and Iran. The official said, “We, the United States, and others who might be threatened by these developments will have to look at how to respond, and inevitably I think people will have to look at the question of preemption.”