It would appear that the president of France is underwhelmed with the testicular fortitude of our own POTUS. From the French paper Le Monde by way of the Wall Street Journal--
French Atomic Pique
"Both countries wanted to confront Iran a day earlier at the United Nations. Mr. Obama was, after all, chairing a Security Council session devoted to nonproliferation. The latest evidence of Iran's illegal moves toward acquiring a nuclear weapon was in hand. With the world's leaders gathered in New York, the timing and venue would be a dramatic way to rally international opinion.
"President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been "frustrated" for months about Mr. Obama's reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn't want to "spoil the image of success" for Mr. Obama's debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde. So the Iran bombshell was pushed back a day to Pittsburgh, where the G-20 were meeting to discuss economic policy."
You can take that for what it's worth.
I don't know what the solution is, but if western powers don't do something about Iran soon, Israel is going to. If that happens, the shit is going to hit the fan in ways that scare the Hell out of me.