The slow enmeshing of Iran by Linda S. Heard

The White House isn't really interested in slapping Iran with a long-drawn out sanction process, which would, in any case, boomerang as oil prices would soar.

Bush doesn't want guarantees that Iran isn't seeking nuclear WMD either. America's real goal is regime change in Iran, just as it was in Iraq, and in the absence of a genuine cassus belli, it is desperate for a pretext, even, if it has to resort to that same worn-out canard he used to invade Iraq.