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April 2, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17888449/site/newsweek/

Why the Iran Sanctions Are Working

[Newsweek] Fareed Zakaria - UN sanctions are targeted not at the general population but specifically at the regime. The financial measures, aggressively pursued by the Bush administration, have hit where it hurts - at the Tehran ruling elite's bank accounts. Iran appears to have miscalculated. Its abduction of the British sailors will only confirm to many key countries that it is a reckless and untrustworthy state. Tehran's release of letters and a video of the British sailors making obviously coerced concessions has backfired, strengthening British resolve and European unity.

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