Summary: Given the overwhelming body of evidence that demonstrates the Islamic Republic of Iran´s sponsorship of terrorism and belligerent behavior against American and Western governments and/or their allies, it is time to impose a strict regime of sanctions and embargoes on the Iranian regime. As Iran imports some 40% of the refined petroleum products that it needs, we must cut off the supply that the Islamic regime imports from abroad. So too, any equipment that can have possible military usage needs to be embargoed. Travel abroad by Iranian government and military figures needs to be proscribed, and all Iranian government foreign assets frozen. Such steps, if vigorously enforced, will cause the Iranian populous, which overwhelmingly despises the clerical regime, to actively oppose it and impose the "Third Option": regime change instigated by the Iranian People itself. |