There will be plenty of tub thumping and sabre rattling but, when all the dust has settled and the conference season is only a memory, things will undoubtedly change.

BBC: By Nick Assinder

Opening the debate, Mr Baron called on the West to stop its "sabre-rattling" policies over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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For all its sabre-rattling, Israel still says that diplomacy is preferable to war.

ECONOMIST: Be very afraid, please

So they do a bit of sabre-rattling but mostly let their companies use tax havens to suit their needs.

ECONOMIST: All together now

Mr Ghosn may just be sabre-rattling to get more concessions from the government or to persuade Brussels to approve the aid package.

ECONOMIST: Car industry

Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliev, has been sabre-rattling to drum up support.

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Though Indonesia gets on well with both Iran and America, and thus in theory could help bring them together, there was nothing but the usual sabre-rattling from Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when he visited Jakarta last week.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Alarmed by months of sabre-rattling and a possibility that Israel will make good on long-standing hints that it intends to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, he and President Barack Obama had softened their tone before the talks begin.

ECONOMIST: Iran

Dutch Eurosceptic MEP Barry Madlener accused Turkey of sabre-rattling, and said that if Turkey decided to boycott talks with the EU during the forthcoming Cypriot presidency of the Council of Ministers, then "they should never come back to the negotiating table".

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