a group of u.s. officials said a couple of weeks ago (after Germany said it would not back further sanctions) that diplomacy had failed and that a military response is necessary and they were discussing either a naval blockade or airstrikes. the French foreign minister said that France must be prepared for the possibility of war with Iran (hopefully that means that if the U.S. does have to go to war that the French will help us and i know the Israelis will help, so it's not like the U.S. will be fighting alone). the problem is that Germany, Russia and China won't support more sanctions. we can prevent war but sanctions, the Ayatollahs won't back down to them but if the sanctions are hard enough we can trash the Iranian economy and maybe angry Iranians will topple the government, or the Iranian Government will just go bankrupt and not have enough money to support the nuke program.
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