The administration is also weighing whether to impose sanctions on elements of the Revolutionary Guards that control Iran's oil exports, effectively banning purchases of fuel from Iran.
But in their denials, the weak reformist camp under President Mohammad Khatami also indicated that officially sanctioned rogue elements -- much like the assassination squads that eliminated government critics here in the late 1990's -- might be deliberately wrecking reconciliation.
Two decades before Julius Erving began electrifying crowds with his above-the-rim acrobatics, the jump shot was reconfigured from a disruptive and almost unethical piece of personal grandstanding to an accepted, sanctioned, and teachable element of the sport.
This, the argument went, was impossible while under sanctions and without an element of political reform.
While sanctions are an important element of American strategy, piling more on at this moment could harm, rather than advance, the chances for a negotiated deal with Iran.
Successful policy-making requires the use of complex diplomacy, carrots and sticks -- incentives, such as structured talks, and disincentives, such as sanctions against rogue elements.
The newest element of the sanctions would require countries to inspect ships or planes headed into or out of Iran if there were suspicions that banned materials were aboard.
Data from the phase one survey indicated that the programmes included larger samples (mean census 76 v 68), with correspondingly larger budgets; but, importantly, the duration of the programmes, their clinical, administrative, and sanctioning approaches, and the procedural elements of care did not differ.
Observance of this structure ensures not only that the EU structure is seen as constitutionally sanctioned but also that the EU structure has an element of popular authorisation.
