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January 4, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2700

Raising the Costs for Tehran

[Washington Institute for Near East Policy] Michael Jacobson - In the wake of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, questions are being raised as to whether sanctions and financial pressure remain a viable approach to changing Tehran's decision-making on its nuclear program. As evidence of this strategy's demise, critics point to the foundering attempts to negotiate a third round of UN sanctions against Iran - sanctions that appeared imminent before the NIE's publication. While additional punitive measures by the UN are important and necessary, better enforcement of the various sanctions regimes already in place could have an equally significant impact.

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