This sounds very reminiscent of the lead up to a certain incident around Pear Harbour.... I see that the same party is trying the same tactics again.

DKit

Iran chose to thumb its nose at the civilised world, sponsoring terrorists in Lebanon, fostering civil war in Iraq, belligerence towards Israel and suppression of its own people.

If it stopped doing those things, it could quickly become a very prosperous and peaceful country

"U.S. sanctions are slowly strangling the Iranian economy."

Good. That's what they are supposed to do.

Shadow, that's all well and good to say the sanctions are achieving what they are supposed to. Just remember unintended consequences, the sanctions were working in 1941 and the US suddenly found its fleet making a new reef at the bottom of Pearl Harbour.

DKit

Dkit,

And how did that go for Japan?

If Iran were stupid enough to use force against the US and its allies, the response would be sufficient to deter it from ever trying it again.

The current and accurate position,is that the sanctions are not having the desired effects,in that they are being broken by major industrial countries out of sheer necessity, for mercantile reasons of convenience and presumably,because of inherent disregard and objections .

China,South Korea,Japan and India all are actively buying oil,China being the biggest sanction buster,with India buying progressively less.

The volumes are huge,with China being Iran's biggest customer

With this situation in place,it is impossible for the sanctions to work as they were intended.

To prevent the possibility of Iran developing the ability of creating the capacity to start developing nuclear weapons every Iranian nuclear site must be turned into a Fukushima by conventional bombs and any aggressive response answered by nukes. I fear the Iranian regime is just as irrational as the Vietnamese, willing to sacrifice millions of their own people's lives in a fight against the peaceful, just and democratic international community. Iran must realize only countries, like Israel, UK, and the US whose strict adherence to international law allows them possess any nuclear material whatsoever.