Waiting for the Adults: Then and Now
by John Limbert “Can’t anybody here play this game?” –Casey Stengel on the New York Mets, 1963 Marx tells us that history happens first as tragedy and then as farce. He was predicting what has occurred...
View ArticleU.S. Prosecution of “Global Terrorist” Ends in Guilty Plea for Shipping Chickens
by Gareth Smyth For many years the United States Treasury, plus some ‘experts’ and media outlets, have assured us that Kassem Tajideen is a “terrorist financier.” In 2009 the Treasury’s Office of...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Has Criminalized the Iranian Economy
by Tyler Cullis The Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” strategy with respect to Iran is predicated on placing Iran’s economy in perpetual isolation. A not-insignificant part of that effort has...
View ArticleWhy Ayatollah Khamenei Has Blocked Negotiation with the U.S.
by Kayhan Barzegar Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defined the current status of relations between Iran and the United States as “no war, no negotiation.” His position, in addition to...
View ArticleIran Struggles With Food Security Amid Sanctions
by Austin Bodetti As Iran wrestles with devastating economic sanctions imposed after the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the news media has highlighted the impact...
View ArticleNew Trump Iran Designation Threatens Humanitarian Goods
by Tyler Cullis In July 2019, Brian Hook—the U.S. Special Representative on Iran—released a video addressing the purported “myth” that the U.S. sanctions humanitarian trade with Iran. That wasn’t a...
View ArticleU.S. Weighs Lifting Terror-Related Sanctions Against Sudan
by Yigal Chazan The U.S. is facing a difficult dilemma as it considers when to lift severely restrictive sanctions against Sudan—sanctions that, left in place for much longer, could hamper if not...
View ArticleYou’ve Been De-Banked! How An Unknown Counterterror Law Is Crippling The...
By Rasha Elass As a law-abiding U.S. citizen, I never thought I would suffer the consequences of U.S. Counterterrorism measures. But when I reported to duty as a correspondent in Beirut for a U.S....
View ArticleTrump Pours More Misery On Iranians He’s Claiming To Support
By Tyler Cullis The Trump administration has sounded the death knell for humanitarian trade with Iran. By designating Iran a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern and imposing additional...
View ArticleThe Limited Utility of the Iran Sanctions
By Kenneth Katzman The objective of any sanctions regime is not to punish the target country or weaken its economy as an end in itself. Rather, a sanctions campaign—including the Trump Administration’s...
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