Ratcheting up sanctions on Iran is the wrong approach
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
03/26/07
The conventional wisdom for dealing with Iran is demanding repeatedly that the Iranians end their uranium enrichment program, and slapping on new sanctions. Although the December 2006 United Nations Security Council sanctions that banned countries from exporting nuclear and missile materials and technology to Iran probably were prudent, widening the sanctions outside the nuclear and missile areas is a mistake. Broadening the sanctions changes their main purpose from being instrumental to being merely punitive...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1950
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
03/26/07
The conventional wisdom for dealing with Iran is demanding repeatedly that the Iranians end their uranium enrichment program, and slapping on new sanctions. Although the December 2006 United Nations Security Council sanctions that banned countries from exporting nuclear and missile materials and technology to Iran probably were prudent, widening the sanctions outside the nuclear and missile areas is a mistake. Broadening the sanctions changes their main purpose from being instrumental to being merely punitive...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1950
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
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