http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/13/breaking-up-sanctions-is-hard-to-do-iran-nuclear-united-nations/
A historic nuclear deal with Iran is in sight, but
unraveling the web of financial embargoes, asset freezes, and restricted
oil sales won’t be easy.
The Obama administration is moving closer to a landmark deal with
Tehran that would impose new restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in
exchange for loosening the punishing international sanctions that have
brought the country’s economy to its knees.
But if a deal is struck — which is far from guaranteed — dismantling
the U.S. restrictions against Iran that have been layered on by
successive presidential decrees and congressional directives is not
going to happen overnight. The Treasury Department
website
lists 26 executive orders related to Iran sanctions, dating back to
President Jimmy Carter’s original command to freeze the assets of the
Iranian government in the United States during the embassy hostage
crisis in 1979. There are also 10 statutes, four United Nations Security
Council resolutions, and tens of European Union regulations and
amendments to implement the U.N.’s sanctions.
“I wouldn’t buy into the spin that we’re almost there,” said David
Albright, a nuclear physicist and founder and president of the Institute
for Science and International Security, who has been in contact with
U.S. negotiators. “On sanctions, they are pretty stuck.”
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/13/breaking-up-sanctions-is-hard-to-do-iran-nuclear-united-nations/
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