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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The EU, Israel, and United States have been conducting an intensive campaign of diplomatic skirmishes with Brazil, China, Turkey, and others over imposing sanctions on Iran to stop it from moving from enriching uranium to building nuclear weapons. The sanctions needed to be "crippling" according to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, "massive" according to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, and "biting" according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.1 Yet, an operational consensus had not been obtained by May 2010. Some in the United States, particularly within Congress, appear willing to be indiscriminate in hitting not only the core of the Iranian regime but also the Iranian people, while Israel is defiantly planning a potentially catastrophic military attack on Iran's nuclear sites even without the consent of the United States.2 On the other hand, Europeans want to be more circumspect and focus on targeting the hard core of Iran's regime rather than its public.
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