From “How to Approach Iran” in today’s Washington Post, signed by Madeleine Albright and former foreign ministers from the U.K., France, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Spain, and the NEtherlands:

If the Americans need to increase their support for diplomatic efforts, Europeans must prove to the Iranians that severe political and economic consequences will result if Iran does not renounce the nuclear weapons option. In the event that diplomacy fails and Iran decides not to abandon its efforts to develop nuclear weapons, Europeans should be ready for alternative courses of action, including going to the U.N. Security Council, and they should repeatedly stress their willingness to act. The transatlantic community should not be trying to force a confrontation with Iran, but we must not fear one if that’s what is necessary to prevent the introduction of another nuclear weapons program into the combustible Middle East.

Emphasis mine. Gosh, what, so maybe a decade or more from now, the mullahs will be ousted when the U.S. decides to really lead, after the U.N. has long refused to? Something like that?