By winter a new relationship was blossoming between Washington and Moscow, and an American-British proposal for a different approach to Iraqi sanctions was gaining ground.
In that case, a lot more governments may have to be induced to impose eye-watering economic pain so as to get the regime's attention.Veto-wielding Russia and China have eviscerated three previous sets of UN sanctions, and gained commercially from doing so.
An international movement for "boycott, divestment and sanctions" has gained steam as the peace process in the Middle East has come to a virtual standstill, and allies of the Palestinians have argued that these strategies could pressure Israel to stop building settlements and return to the negotiating table.
India, Pakistan and Israel, all nuclear-weapons states, are non-signatories; North Korea left the npt without much effective sanction after gaining nuclear-weapons technology.
Iran has often exaggerated its nuclear achievement claims as part of an effort to frustrate the sanctions effort and gain negotiating leverage with the West.
For a new clinical diagnosis to gain sanction with psychologists, schools, doctors and insurance companies, it requires entry into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the field guide to psychiatric illness.
Tourism is diving, foreign investments are plunging, and the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is gaining momentum.
Beijing has a lot to gain from sanctions busting in the form of a sweetheart bilateral oil deal with Iran.
Iran will gain additional sanctions relief.
The Northern League, a right-wing, anti-EU party that opposes sanctions against Russia, is gaining traction.
