A prominent pro-Israeli US journalist complains in a column that the US-led sanctions against Iran are not potent enough and Tehran is 'hardly isolated.'
Right-wing Washington columnist George Will writes in a Washington Post column from al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Sunday that US President Barack Obama's "wasted year of engaging Iran" last year led to sanctions that may never become "sufficiently potent."
Expressing alarm at growing fears in Israel for its existence, the widely-read Zionist journalist blames what he describes as "the 1979 revolution" (1978 Islamic Revolution) for what has become "the rise of Iran and militant Islam," emergence of Islamic resistance movements Hamas and Hezbollah, and "the multiplying threat of missile warfare" in the Middle East today.
Will goes on to describe incoming missiles as the main threat towards "eliminating Israel," admitting that the regime's anti-missile defense "cannot cope with Hamas's tens of thousands of rockets in Gaza and Hezbollah's up to 60,000 in southern Lebanon," which, he claims, "has tripled" since the 2006 Israeli aggression against the country that killed and injured thousands of mostly civilian Lebanese.
The article's final argument focuses on Iran and its civilian nuclear program, expressing concern that Iran regards Israel as "enemy of God," and denies the Holocaust.
"If Iran were to wipe the Zionist entity off the map," Will writes, "it would, (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu believes, achieve a regional dominance not seen since Alexander."
Netanyahu, according to the article's final argument, "does not say that Israel will, if necessary, act alone to prevent this. Or does he?"
Israel and the US have waged a major rhetorical campaign against Iran, threatening the country with military action for its refusal to abandon its right to a civilian nuclear program. Israel and its Western allies accuse the Islamic Republic of intending to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran, whose nuclear program is closely monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, has fiercely rejected the allegations, insisting on its rejection of nuclear weaponry as a matter of a religious principle as well as a state policy. It has repeatedly called for a global elimination of all nuclear weapons.
US and Israel, on the other hand, both possess nuclear warheads. Though Israel's possession of nuclear arms is undeclared, it is widely believed to have over 200 atomic warheads, refusing to submit to any authoritative inspection of its nuclear facilities.
In response to military threats by the US and Israel against its nuclear facilities, Iran insists that its response to any military move will be severe and immediate. Specifically, political and military leaders in Tehran have made clear that if the Israeli regime dares to take a military measure against Iran, it would soon cease to exist. 
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