Blogfriend Dave Schuler has put together an outstanding and wide-ranging post. Among other things, he explores these alternatives for halting Iran’s development of nuclear weapons:

  • More suasion alone

  • Moves aimed at strengthening the current regime.

  • Condemnation by the U. N. Security Council.

  • Limited sanctions by the U. N. Security Council.

  • U. N. Security Council-led boycott.

  • Announcement of an official policy of regime change in Iran and associated support for opposition groups in Iran.

  • Blockade.

  • Special forces raids on nuclear development facilities.

  • Bombing of nuclear development facilities.

  • Invasion in force.