0545 GMT: Nuclear Watch. Ritual lines, but few details, from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a day of meetings in Israel: "Iran is under greater pressure now than ever before. We will use all elements of American power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
0530 GMT: We open with some Monday rhetoric from 1st Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi:
These days, the oppressive powers have joined forces to stop the Islamic Republic with the toughest and most unprecedented sanctions, but the Iranian nation will cast these embargoes and other problems aside.
The oppressive powers are ignorant of the important fact that the driving engine of the Islamic Republic has been ignited with the blood of its martyrs and is now running.
It might be useful to set Rahimi's declaration alongside last weekend's special session of the Expediency Council, this week's special gathering --- the first ad hoc meeting in 33 years --- of the Assembly of Experts, and this comment from Minister of Industry Mehdi Ghazanfari as tried to reassure senior clerics on Sunday:
Right from the beginning of the Revolution, we have experienced various sanctions. But it must be pointed out that the current sanctions are different from those in the past. The past sanctions focused on investment [in Iran by foreign entities], services, and spare parts. The current sanctions, however, are paralyzing because the enemy has put its finger on the vital artery of the national economy [i.e., oil] and has imposed comprehensive sanctions.
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