The sanctions are patently worthless. The UN just doesn't have nearly as much leverage here as it did with North Korea. Even that issue has yet to be resolved, and the UN basically had Kim Jong Il by the throat; how do we expect to win with the same strategy, only worse? While Iran definately needs supplies from Western nations, Ahmadinejad and his administration seem unwilling to admit the fact, and until the Iranian government finally realizes that it is slowly destroying its citizenry, I really don't think much can be done, short of decisive military action. But is now really the time for yet another firestorm?

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Men of England, heirs of Glory,
Heroes of unwritten story,
Nurslings of one mighty Mother,
Hopes of her, and one another;

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.

- Percy Shelley, "The Masque of Anarchy"