Europe and Japan just yanked the legs out from the plan to provoke Iran with oil sanctions. The US Government will likely not raise on this busted flush because Ron Paul's success in the primaries, despite the concerted efforts of the corporate media, the GOP, and Israel, has sent a clear and unambiguous message to the status quo that starting yet another war for Israel is going to cost incumbents their jobs come November.

In short, unless Israel starts to act like Nazis Israelis and blow something up and claim Iran did it, we just stepped back from the edge of total global war.

Hopefully, Israel's government will realize that a false-flag attack, either bombing something in the US or attacking a ship in the gulf, will be presumed an Israeli false-flag. After all, with the sanctions DOA, Iran has no reason to shut down the Straights of Hormuz, which leaves the US with no reason to attack Iranian assets, which means Iran has no reason to attack a US ship. That makes it very hard for Israel to sell a new false-flag attack.