I was thinking there were some broader sanctions in place including some of the Europeans. I know there’s been a lot of anger in Israel over Germany’s economic ties with Iran which resulted in over 4 bln euros in trade in 2008. Sounds as if some German trade groups such as NUMOV headed up by former chancellor Gerhard Schroder are aggresively pursuing more trade with Iran. Russia always talks about sanctions but then when push comes to shove they always back off claiming they won’t work. China clearly isn’t interested.
It appears right now that sacntions have a zer0 percent chance of having any impact irrespective of zer0’s grandstanding.
i don´t think that the EU will be in favour of “real” ecconomic sanctions. given the fact that the EU is the biggest import partner of iran and i guess the second (after china) biggest export partner there is a lot of money and oil involved in this. so i´m not expecting the EU to sanction Iran. from a cold political point of view only. Why should they? most of europe gives a rats ass to what ever happens to Israel. they are not specially important to europe. Iran as a trade partner is.so if you are not shure about certain politics allways follow the money, this will explain most of it.