Interesting - the actions by SWIFT to shut down Iranian banks abilities to make international transactions [which, again, amounts to a virtual blockade and therefore is tantamount to an act of war] is front page news in Israel, but I don't see it on the front pages of any major American news source. Maybe it's not an indication of a native idiocy and they're just a little slow getting to it. Let's take a quick look at some European papers... no, nothing there either. Hmmn. Sure sounds to me like it should be big news. Guess I don't know what I'm talking about.
Now, it's not like I think Iran is actually gonna treat this as an act of war - still, something significant has to happen in response, no? Some other piece of this puzzle has to fall - my guess is it comes from China or Russia. I just don't see Iran capitulating - a fake capitulation, that's another thing.
