Congressional push for sanctions on food and medicine
It’s that time of year again–when Republicans and Democrats in Congress takes a break from wringing each other’s necks to pass a piece of legislation to “tighten the noose” around Iran just in time for campaign season. For those just checking in, here’s an example of what our current sanctions are already doing on the […]
Dumb and Dumber Sanctions
What happens when Senator Mark Kirk and Rep. Brad Sherman — the two leading advocates in Congress for sanctions that deliberately hurt the Iranian people — get together to design a new Iran sanctions package with the neoconservative “Foundation for Defense of Democracies”? The result is legislation that would impose extraterritorial sanctions on all Iranian banks […]
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Reul Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies offer up their latest proposition for Washington’s Iran policy in the Wall Street Journal today. Surprise: no matter what, Iran gets bombed. They explain how Moscow and Beijing are rendering the new Iran sanctions meaningless because, as European and Asian firms are […]