Polish term (edited): �elazny u�cisk

a ja bym dał tak:
Crushed and melted in their iron embrace, Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians,
Montenegrins, Bosnians, Herzegovinians and Albanians were ready to recognize ...
www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v252i0008_09.htm

He sold out his own people at every turn, presiding over the Dayton Accord and
delivering Bosnian Serbs into the iron embrace of a UN/NATO dictatorship. ...
www.antiwar.com/justin/j062901.html

Colorado and northern and western New Mexico, facilitating the trade and stimulating
the progress of each town and section which it seizes in its iron embrace. ...
ghostdepot.com/rg/library/magazine/taming%203.htm

Today Panama is once more a client-state nation, in the iron embrace of the US global
corporate system with a desperately impoverished population willing to ...
www.darkconspiracy.com/conspiracies/ bigbrother/inpriv/hypo.txt

With the exception of Turkey, Cyprus and Malta, they had all been communist countries,
wrapped in the iron embrace of the Soviet Union whose Bolshevik party ...
www.quaker.org/qcea/svwb-michaellake.htm

IMHO iron pasuje jak ulał, zwłaszcza że funcjonuje termin żelazna kurtyna - iron curtain (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_curtain).