Iranian revolutionary Guards and the elite around Ahmadinejad is not easy to cope with...nobody knows the end of this story, but I guess it will turn out this year.

Internally, they are heavily persecuting any critics or past supporters of moderate leaders. Mundtotmachen, we say in Germany.

Internationally, they had the support of the Russians until a year ago, but now they are quite alone. Israel is heavy lobbying for sanctions and proposed even that the EU is putting Iranian Revolutionary Guards on its blacklist, when Silvio Berlusconi was in Israel yesterday... For deciding on this the UN Security Council needs approval from all five permanent members: US, Russia, China, GB, F. Only problem which occurs is the heavy angriness of China with the US over the Spy plane affair, US arms sale to Taiwan, visit of Dalai Lama etc, which could risk to end cooperation in the Security Council. The relationship between the US and China is dramatically worsening.

This is not very good for solving problems like this, which need utmost international cooperation. I am quite worried!