Iran's people should be encourage to tighten their belts. The tighter the better.

Severe sanctions are the only thing that will convince the Iranians to give up their plans to build nuclear weapons & prevent war breaking out in that region.

Mike, London, England

The whole affair verges on the comedic. Iran is bankrupt, it has a poor and dysfunctional government, its people are oppressed and poor, and it has the rest of the Mid-East governments nervous because another loser of a government, Syria, has joined with it, along with two other Islamic impostors and State wannabes, Hamas and Hezbollah. How many impoverished Arab states and state wannabe's are the Iranian people supposed to support, all in the name of Islamic leadership? And leadership going where, exactly? Iran has all the oil it needs, but no one will invest there. It is all about political power for the Iranian ruling classes and an effort to distract the Iranian population from the internal failures of the government. It reminds me of the Soviet Union's approach to power, by propping up all the weak regimes to form a threat to the West. It was all a facade and a charade, wasn't it?

Richard, San Mateo, CA, USA

Every story has two sides.

Rakesh, Beijing,