Best thing to say is what did Jimmy Carter do in the halycon day of 1978 that undercut the discipline of the Shah over the Iranian people. Being a progressive ruler, the Shah promoted rights of women, industrialization, jobs, trade and a strong military. Carter joined the critics in saying that the excesses promoted by the Shah was suppressing the rights of the mullahs in opposing his rule and calling for a more theocratic government. And Carter conditioned the sale of 7 Boeing AWACS, 31 F-4G Wild Weasel Phantoms, 80 more F-14's on the Shah's liberalization of people's right to protest which only served to undercut his rule and intensify the democratication of the protests which led to a dictatorial state run by the mullahs led by Khomeini. Much of the American Arms were cancelled in February 1979, including the AWACS, 31 F-4G Phantoms whose components were used to overhaul USAF Phantoms and the option to buy 80 additional Tomcats. Jimmy Carter suffered the ultimate humiliation in losing the elections and not having the hostages released untill 31 minutes after Reagan was sworn in. He was looked down as far less of a man and still is. Iran has given us more than enough probable cause to destroy the nuclear reactor and the illicit nuclear device making program. We do not need UN sanctions to give us permission to do so as there is a clear and present danger in letting an unstable Iranian leader have possession of a nuclear device. A SWAT team would breach anyonoe's house after receiving a claim the person had a cache of illegal automatic weapons inside and was threatening his neighbors - there would be no need to go to the UN to get sanctions applied against that person terrorizing the neighborhood. Obama must be more proactive in supporting the people opposing their government in Iran. And he must be ready to exercise the military option if it will do good in effecting change from inside.