Quoth Marvin:
"(Hoagland's) tactic of choice is to threaten "market access denial" to European banks and other international lenders which do business with Iran, and I'd be looking for those telltale signs if some patchwork settlement short of war and brokered by the West Europeans,"
Ain't this a bit risky just as the latest pulse of globalisation begins to look fragile? Start a shit-storm within a pretty globalised finance fraternity, induce avenging protectionist tit-for-tattism, put the WTO in invidious position etc ... it all smells a bit like deploying soft power long -- and I mean long -- before you got it back - perhaps even recession-inducing ... Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Rob.