Worth rereading a post from a few weeks back, tracing the roots of an Iran oil blockade meme.

Update: An Iranian American contact writes, "Just fyi – Israelis connected to the intelligence services told me that their objective was a naval blockade already 1.5 years ago…" He adds, "They spoke with great confidence, as if they had planned to have the sanctions fail to create greater appetite for the blockade. I thought they were smoking something…"

Then again, 1.5 years ago was before the three sets of UN Security Council sanctions went through.

Presumably should they prove inadequate the option for an oil blockade plan B is what House Resolution 362 and its Senate counterpart are designed to help lay the groundwork for...

Posted by Laura at June 18, 2008 09:37 PM