"...a regime with a history of supporting terrorist groups, that are becoming more and more international, a regime with a history of actively pursuing weapons programmes to acquire weapons of mass destruction..." -

That sounds like a description of quite a number of governments. Including the United States.

For some peculiar reason the Security Council seems to go in for coded wording rather than directly saying what is meant. As understand it the code for going to war is supposed to be "all necessary means" or similar. "Serious consequences" is taken to mean that military action will be on the agenda next time round, and can be stretched to cover violence short of war. Who decides these things is a mystery.

One good thing that should come out of all this would be that they could cut out this kind of crap and use straightforward language, the sort that ultimatums always used to contain in the days when countries actually declared war instead of following the Japanese Pearl Harbour approach to starting conflicts. "Unless such and such happens by such and such a date and time, a state of war will exist between our two countries."