Iran isn't making the work of its appeasers very easy.

Iran isn't making the work of its appeasers very easy. If only it suspended uranium enrichment, the world's various acronymed bodies would probably toast the mullahs as "strategic partners" and suspend sanctions on their regime. Iran's rulers would still be free to fire up the centrifuges whenever they wished, but the diplomatic smart set would forget about this threat. Instead, Iran presses ahead with uranium enrichment and tells the U.N. to take a hike--a course that recently provoked a Security Council resolution imposing further sanctions (a ban on Iranian arms exports and a freeze on the assets of certain regime leaders and Iranian organizations). The new sanctions, though a marginal escalation of pressure, are unlikely to have much effect. Far better would be to sanction the country's gasoline imports (Iran is such an economic basketcase that it cannot refine its own oil). Iran has already retaliated by further reducing its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The mullahs think the U.N. is bluffing. Alas, they are probably right.