Tuesday, August 14, 2012


Killing Iran's children: Is the price of US sanctions worth it?

by Dave Lindorff (source: Counterpunch) August 14, 2012
FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE Madeleine Albright should be a happy camper: Another campaign of sanctions and embargoes by the US is about to start killing children, this time in Iran.
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Should The United States Rethink Sanctions Against Iran?

by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (source: Lobelog via the Federation of American Scientists) August 13, 2012
First, international sanctions only work when the population they are imposed on identifies with the objective of the sanctions. This is the big difference between the sanctions to end apartheid in South Africa and those to force Iran to abandon nuclear enrichment. Most Iranians are not all that invested in nuclear enrichment, one way or the other, but few would see stopping Iran’s enrichment as their cause. ››read more

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