"They disappointed the Israelis, angered the Germans & made the Iranians more defiant..."

In DerSpiegel, here

"...The Iran sanctions have placed Germany in a delicate position. The limited punitive measures did not achieve their goal of convincing Iran to give up its controversial nuclear program. In fact, they are even doing harm, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, said last week. "Many Iranians who even dislike the regime (are) gathering around the regime because they feel that country is under siege," ElBaradei said.

Politically speaking, however, the sanctions have been relatively ineffective, as IAEA Director-General ElBaradei says.... The die-hard reactionaries surrounding President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are no longer the only ones insisting on Iran's right to close the nuclear fuel cycle. The reformers, too, have fallen in step with Ahmadinejad's hard-line approach, and they no longer seriously consider abandoning uranium enrichment..."