International push for Iran sanctions is too little, too late

Lots of people in Israel don't want a war. But Netanyahu wants nothing less than an invasion of Iran and a permanent occupation by the US of Iran. That is mostly the foreign policy platform he ran on aside from never making peace with the Palestinians.

Just so long as you leave Estee Lauder and Chanel alone.

A small country like Israel has no future in the long run with trusting on it's military superiority. Not when outnumbered so greatly by population and land area as is the case with Israel and all the Muslim countries in the ME. It's time to make peace before it becomes too late. We Europeans know what we are talking about. A small continent like Europe once ruled the world. That was pretty abnormal, but normaity catched up with us. We learned a lot about avoiding war since then. A luxury Europe could enjoy due to American protection. Israel is at that crossroad now and does enjoy the same luxury. Make the right choice please Israel.

currently the U.S. economy is very fragile, with a very high unemployment rate. Any slight rise in gasoline price cause by the sanctions will cause the economy to collapse. Obama will probably give more weigh to the U.S. economy than Israel's security. This probably explains his half-hearted approach to implementing sanctions.

Neither Israel nor the USA want a war with any country be it Iran , Syria, Lebanon, or Gaza. The economy of Israel is doing just fine and a war only causes fear and loss of confidence. The economy of the USA is getting better but it should have been doing better. It is still getting out from under the banking debacle. Analyze the Middle East better and you will find that Iran is just moving along its way to supreme power of the area. As long as Iran leaves Israel alone, Israel does not give a crap about Iran.

I'm not sure what planet you people have been living on, but there are sanctions against Israel presumably because of its nuclear weapons since they surely are not opposed to Israel's very existence. These sanctions are in place by 90 percent of the islamic nations in the world. The fact that virtually every american hating nation in the world has sanctions against Israel should tell you something if you were really an american. The enemies of the corrupt and dictatorial regime in Tehran have as much right or more to put sanctions against it as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Lebanon, Libya, etc have to put sanctions against Israel.

"I am against nuclear weapons period. But Israel`s hypocrisy on this issue will inevitably lead to one or several of its enemies to develop a deterrent to Israeli nukes".

A huge win for International terrorism. Terror provocations and military imperialism will now increase and spread tenfold even in the absence of a nuclear stike.

has always worked.Nothing new here.

It is a waste of time. All you have to do is look at North Korea, India and Pakistan.

So, instead of trying sanctions, we should bomb their source of national pride? Does that make sense?

a new strategic approach to our nukes.tell the world and then we increase our power with better devices. timing is of course everything.

Nobody will help Israel, and the sure way to destroy yourself will be to use a anuclear weapon.

Israel is under the US nuclear umbrella. When was the last time somebody used nukes on somebody under the US nuclear umbrella? Starting a war is not in Israel's interest. Having the US destroy itself economically and militarily by having the US launch another Middle Eastern war is not in the interest of Israel either. If you need a war that bad, buy a boat and invade on your own. But don't expect everybody to follow. It ain't gonna happen. Nobody rational is that suicidal.

I believe if Not Israel, no one else will do the deed including the U.S. They can jerk around threatening meaningful sanctions forever.

Israel maybe should have pursued sanctions early rather than a surrogate war. Nobody has the stomach for war, not even Israel. Maybe sanctions will work, maybe not. Maybe Israel should have negotiated, too. Tough noogies, no war.

A military strike by Israel on Iran would be a serious serious mistake. So what if Iran builds a nuke. Israel has them. Should Iran take military action too? How absurd the Israeli argument for action has become. The only justification for the world of nations, is sanctions. Other then that any country that takes military action is the aggressor and should be threaten with appropriate actions from the UN.

Hopefully Israel will continue its policy that its safety and future lie in its own hands and not in the empty promises of Obama and the US. Either Israel will stand by this, or the cries of "never again" will be just empty boasts of a country whose residents have no reason to believe they will be protected by their gov't. What's it going to be?

The "big five" with "right" of veto in UN are nuclear and the biggest weapons producers. The useless UN do nothing about the zions nukes. So,this sh.. got no right to impose nothing against Iran or others country 'cos, if one have nukes, why the others can not?? Go Iran!

Once the US received the assurances they wanted from Iraq, BOOM, Shock and Awe. Iran would be wise to play these cards close to their chest, you know like Israel does. China and Russia will no doubt be factoring that into their deliberations.

They are great talkers. In two years they will still be talking about Iran sanctions.

I agree with most of the posters that everyone who breaks International Law should have consequences but not necessarily sanctions. In cases like Cuba and Gaza it's just the everyday folk who suffer, suffer, suffer, and I believe the World is becoming pretty united on that front as well.

There will be no sanctions applied to Iran, too many countries are opposed. But little by little Israel is getting near to be sanctioned.

The phoniness of the Israeli position is getting old, really. Where does it say that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons if it wants to, and can produce them? The Iranians have as much right to create these weapons just like any other country. Israel did! And the argument that it will give these weapons to its allies is just crap.

Iran has no nuclear weapons program. Iran has already offered to trade its 5% enriched uranium for 20% enriched fuel rods THAT CANNOT BE CONVERTED TO WEAPONS USE!!! The EU and the US refused to trade. Iran would be insane to develop atomic bombs with the US and Israel already nuclear powered. Iran's nuclear power program is designed to give Iran high technology independent of foreign tech and that is what the US and the EU are determined to stop. Iran does pose an existential threat to Zionism, but that threat has nothing to do with nuclear weapons that Iran does not want and does not need. Iran is the strongest international support of Hamas and Hezbollah and that is why Israel and its supporters keep accusing Iran of seeking a nuclear bomb. I am against nuclear weapons period. But Israel's hypocrisy on this issue will inevitably lead to one or several of its enemies to develop a deterrent to Israeli nukes.

A Non-Existent Iranian Threat Israel should cool off in regard to the so-called Iranian nuclear bomb. With or without nuclear bomb Iran is a third world country with the decrepit military on the level of the WW II. I am worried that Bibi goes berserk when he hears this word: Iran. I am worried that Obama can easily trick him promising and never delivering the so-called sanctions. Bibi and his "hevre" should remember that they were dead wrong about Saddam. Russia and China couldn't care less and would never agree to anything meaningful against Iran. 99% sanctions in the world usually fail. It is a reality that Iran either already had or would have in couple of years several nuclear bombs, just like North Korea. The biggest threat Israel faces today is from the pro-Islamic policies of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Hussein Obama, the President of the United States. Unfortunately, Jewish congressmen and senators have betrayed Israel as New York Mayor Koch said in his interview to the Fox News.

Marwan Bishara had an interseting postscript on his "Empire" programme on Al Jazeera the other day. A timeline of western intelligence on the development of Iranian nuclear weapons beginning 1991 US intel "high degree of certainty that Iran will have nuclear weapons in 2 - 3 years' ........... 2010 US and Israel "expect Iranian nuclear weapons by 2014 and prototype perhaps in 6 months". Various other estimate in between ranging from a few months to 8 years. Maybe the lack of such weapons, which have been "imminent" for a decade, means that Iran really does not intend to produce them!

All states that violate international laws should be sanctioned...

I think new sanctions will not work, Iran has in place( plans,) if new sanctions were to be applied, Iran can continue their nuke program without hesitation. The only real solution which must be done soon is military in nature.

The definition of Irony: when someone in Israel claims another country's diplomatic actions are "too little". Let he who is without sin cast the first rocket from the Gaza Strip.