[ Ha'aretz] Yossi Melman - Iran will not play by the West's rules, even the ones most softened. It believes that time is on its side. It sees a U.S. readying for elections and consequently incapable of making a move. It sees a hesitant and divided EU, which does not want to rock the boat and impose harsh sanctions on Iran, and permits its corporations to keep their close ties to the ayatollahs' regime and even sign new contracts, as has been the case recently with Swiss, German, Austrian and Polish energy companies. Hovering above all this are Russia and China, which are not playing the West's game to impose further sanctions on Iran. Iran evidently understands that the threat of the military option that the U.S. and Israel keep bandying about is actually not, at least in the present reality, implementable.
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