| WHAT IRAN SANCTIONS WON´T DO AND WHAT THEY CAN DO |
| Author: DANIEL M. ZUCKER |
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| Date of Original Publication: 02/17/2010 |
| Country: United States |
Summary: Last week President Obama promised strict and biting sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran for its continued refusal to curtail its nuclear program or even to enter serious negotiations. |
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| Brief commentary: It is important to realize that the economic pressure of sanctions and
embargoes have their place in our war with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and
make no mistake, we are engaged in a war which this Iranian regime began with
us in 1979. Economic war affects the lower classes before it does the
privileged of the regime; that is regrettable. But if our economic war is
accompanied with a campaign to support the Green Revolution in the same manner
that we supported the color revolutions in Poland and the rest of eastern
Europe, the Iranian people will know that we ultimately seek their freedom, and
they will respond positively. It´s important to realize what sanctions can and cannot do. Now it´s time to
use them to bring down the corrupt regime of Khamene´i, Ahmadinejad, and their
IRGC thug supporters with the help of the Iranian people itself. |
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Such sanctions, and even embargoes, will not cause Iran´s current government to reverse course and terminate the nuclear program. In truth, nothing will convince the present Iranian regime to retreat on its mad rush to become a nuclear power as Khamene´i and his coterie of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) supporters regard the nuclear card as their one ace-in-the-hole that will keep them in power and in control of Iran. Hell will freeze over five times before this cabal will stop seeking nuclear arms.
So, if sanctions and even embargoes will not stop the mad mullahs, what´s to be done? Is all out war the only option left? Is the nuclear clock about to strike midnight?
Sanctions and embargoes still have an important role to play, but we must understand what that role is.
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