Free Iran: So long as this regime has access to Iran’s oil income, all other sanctions, although may be necessary, are band-aid solutions at best – if not just feel good measures.  America needs to focus on the source of the regime’s strength, its oil income, and not waste so much time and effort on cutting of each individual tentacle.

President Obama’s quiet nomination of S. Leslie Ireland, a top former CIA, Defense Department and DNI specialist on Iran, to be the Treasury Department’s top intelligence official seems to signal that he’s putting the final pieces in place for tougher sanctions on the Tehran regime.

Ireland has been serving Obama recently as an intelligence briefer. But prior to that, she spent 25 years in intelligence, much of it concentrating on Iran.