They will keep up their threat of force, encourage the Iraqi opposition, try to get inspections under way again, step up patrols of the Gulf against sanctions-busting smugglers and launch a diplomatic offensive to bring the world round to their point of view.

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Across a range of prickly issues, from relations with Turkey and Bulgaria to sanctions-busting in the early 1990s during the Bosnian war (when fuel and spares were shipped illegally from Greece to Serbia), political leaders in Athens and Belgrade have stuck together in times of crisis.

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And the United States, which is working on new bunker-busting nuclear bombs, wants sanctions against North Korea and Iran.

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