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Protests in Iran

The LRB Podcast

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The Cost of Isolating Iran Isn't Helping

It's very difficult to impose sanctions in a way that are not punitive to ordinary people. I think Iran's development has politically been stunted for many decades now, partly because of the behavior of the Iranian government and state. And we see a Middle East that is overwhelmingly, you know, full of failed states and civil wars.

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