“Time has come”

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"Yesterday in his Nobel speech, Obama departed from his prepared remarks to say that freedom movements such as Iran's have history and "us on their side." Today, the council of the European Union said it would support further UN Security Council action on Iran. And today, in an interview with Al Jazeera, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton added to the signs the Obama administration is pivoting from the engagement to the pressure track on Iran, POLITICO's Matt Negrin notes:

The “time has come” for the world to condemn Iran’s nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a taped interview with Al Jazeera English. ....

“We have spent time listening and working hard to create this common ground and these common interests, and we’ve done it out of a sense of mutual respect,” she said. ...“But we do feel like at a certain point, the international community must speak with one voice, and we think that time has come with respect to Iran’s nuclear program."

Clinton did not say, when asked, whether the United States would support an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, but she did express disappointment at Iran’s diplomacy. ...

“I think the international community really still wants to engage with Iran, but people are going to now turn to other routes like more pressure, like sanctions to try to change their mind and their behavior,” she said.

But the administration should take care to keep its eye on the goal as it turns to the pressure route, participants in a recent Harvard Iran simulation caution. As the simulation played out, Washington focused so aggressively on the effort to get a new round of international sanctions, while Congress pushed for unilateral sanctions that would target foreign countries' companies doing business in Iran, that it drove two Security Council members to make side deals with Iran, and the international alliance quickly unravelled. Iran, which hadn't paid too much attention to the flurry of western energy spent on getting sanctions, ended up "winning" what began with it holding the seemingly far weaker and more isolated hand..."