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Tony — (archived)

At a minimum, the U.N. should have slapped sanctions on Iran a long time ago instead of threatening them with strongly worded letters for month after month.


I thought it was your premise that sanctions against Iraq were not working to put pressure on Sadaam. Why would Iran be diferent?
Personally, I agree. How much in the way of international punishemnt does NPT allow?


The mullahs of Iran are in a more vulnerable position from Iran's general population than Saddam was, but probably not vulnerable enough. One website tracking Iranian protests and things like this can be found here.


They could be ripe for overthrow, or maybe not. I've also heard recently that Iran wants international acceptance more than anything else. Maybe the realists at state will prevail in back to basics good old fashioned diplomacy.


Targeted air attacks on nuclear facilities are the most obvious and practical military solution, assuming a military solution is the only option. I don't think anyone is talking about a ground invasion, although selecting and confirming targets is going to take some inside help.

Hopefully a last option.
do we have the right to do it? That's another question, and one that I fully expect a boilerplate response to........

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