[decal]

"Needless to say, the German deputy foreign minister, Gernot Erler, has already cautioned that this may be going too far, and that sanctions could well hurt us more than it hurts the Iranians..."

It wouldn't be too soon to start Following The Money a la the Oil-for-Fraud scandal.

[popdonnelly]

"Needless to say, the German deputy foreign minister, Gernot Erler, has already cautioned that this may be going too far"

Fine. We'll accept Iranian nuclear missiles, as long as they're only targeted on Berlin.