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It has gone along with — while delaying — three United Nations Security Council resolutions that have imposed mild sanctions on Iran.

America, which at present imposes mild sanctions on trade and investment in Myanmar, recently threatened to strengthen them unless the government took more vigorous steps to restore democracy.

A separate American effort to get the United Nations Security Council to impose mild sanctions on Iran is proceeding slowly, and European countries are planning to offer new incentives to Iran if it agrees to halt its uranium-enrichment program.

Most of Iran's critics continue to regard economic sanctions as an effective diplomatic tool, and last month the UN security council finally passed a resolution that imposed very mild sanctions on the Iranian regime for its nuclear non-compliance.

Most of the mild sanctions on the country are being lifted, though the ban on arms sales will remain until a civilian head of state is installed in May.

China is set on protecting Mr Kim, and both China and Russia are pathetically reluctant to clamp even mild sanctions on a rising, energy-rich power such as Iran.If the world is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the Russians and Chinese will have to give up some serious interests in order to cause real pain to proliferators.

Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey was widely criticized last year for imposing relatively mild sanctions or reprimands on 11 senior CIA staff members, including some who had already retired.

White House officials, for example, note that China, which had remained in the background at the United Nations when the United States pressed for more pressure on Iran, has now signed on to two rounds of (mild) sanctions.

The Bush administration is again ready to push forward on a sanctions package at the United Nations, but it is doubtful whether the United States and Europe will get Russia and China to sign on to anything but relatively mild sanctions, at least at first.

As the Bush administration discovered as it pushed through three mild sanctions resolutions at the United Nations, Iran has enormous leverage over companies and countries dependent on its oil production.

Malaysia ruled out even such mild sanctions as suspending Myanmar's membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ASEANN).