The Iran sanctions agreement’s phoniness is becoming more clear each day. This report explains that the Iran oil business is booming:

None of the current sanctions proposals in the United Nations or the U.S. — including the latest ones agreed to this week by the U.S., Russia and China — would target Iran’s oil-export business, which generates about half of its government revenues. …

“Everyone buys from the Iranians — governments, states, other companies,” says Mark Ware, a spokesman for Vitol Group, an energy-trading company that continues to deal in Iranian crude and is one of the few companies willing to talk about it. “It’s not subject to any legislation.”

Now companies don’t like to talk about it, according to the report, because of the “stigma.” You see, doing business with a state sponsor of terrorism that is dedicated to the destruction of Israel might be a PR problem.

So, it’s pure fantasy to believe that we will impact the Iranian regime in any meaningful way with the grab bag of pin-prick sanctions. It is the Jewish holiday of Shavuot so many Jewish organizations are not conducting business. After the holiday we’ll see if there are any howls — peeps, even — of criticism from the “leaders” of the Jewish community — or those Jewish Democratic lawmakers who recently met with Obama — who have been largely pusillanimous as Obama has wreaked havoc on the U.S.-Israel relationship and signaled that he intends to take no military action to prevent Iran from going nuclear.

As a keen observer put it regarding the Jerusalem building tizzy, but even more appropriate to this context:

The Jews who ought to have something to say about the ill wind blowing toward Israel from Mr. Obama’s office are passing their whispered worries from one to another “Oy! What should we do? Oy! What should we say? Is it enough that X is saying something? Can we hide behind that? Do we have to say something, too? Oy!”

Yes, as she aptly put it, American Jewry’s non-leaders’ “almost chemical dependence” on Obama and the Democratic Party seems to be so addictive and so intoxicating that they fail to discern that their muteness is placing the Jewish state in peril and endangering the lives of Israelis. Will they now, finally, demand sterner stuff from the president? Not from this Oval Office occupant, I fear.