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More Iranian Sanctions For What Purpose?

“When yet more sanctions are always the answer, one has to ask why. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with a Trumpian title (“Build an Iranian Sanctions Wall”) on April 2, Mark Dubowitz acknowledges that the principal purpose of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Iran is to foster the regime’s collapse….”

Read the full article, originally published on War on the Rocks, here.

Mark Fitzpatrick

Mark Fitzpatrick is Associate Fellow for Strategy, Technology, and Arms Control at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He was formerly the Executive Director of the Americas office of the IISS and Head of the Institute’s Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Program. He previously worked for 26 years in the U.S. Department of State. His research focuses on regional proliferation challenges and preventing nuclear danger in the era of "nuclear renaissance."