[iran] which sanctions would dissuade them

Iranian poets cheerfully wave canisters of plutonium to illustrate how the U.S. can do b-gg-r all about Iran's manifest destiny

George Bush expressed the issue of sanctions perfectly in Annandale, Va., on Aug. 9, 2004: "Secondly, the tactics of our - as you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions." So, if the United States is willing to give European negotiator Javier Solana more time for talks on the nuclear issue with Iran and if major powers will support sanctions if Tehran does not suspend uranium enrichment, it’s difficult to see which particular sanctions will do anything to Iran. They might even start playing Russia’s game again.