This is how dangerous this situation can get....
In an WSJ Op-Ed, titled
"How to Put the Squeeze on Iran", WSJ 11/13/08
Cutting off its gasoline imports may be the only peaceful (my emphasis) way to get Tehran to abandon its nuclear weapons program.- ORDE F. KITTRIE, professor of law at Arizona State University and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously worked for 11 years at the U.S. Department of State, including as a specialist on nuclear nonproliferation and sanctions.
----The writer should know that embargoes - esp. on fuel, are -far from being "peaceful", but rather are considered to be an act of war. In the 1930s the US initiated an embargo on fuel to Japan which led Japan to plan for Pearl Harbor....