Published on The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org)
Bait-and-Switch Sanctioning of Iran
April 8, 2015
The idea of Iran as a regional marauder that is gobbling up other
countries in the Middle East and against which pressure must therefore
be unrelenting has become one of the favorite themes of those determined
to kill the nuclear agreement with Tehran. As an argument for rejecting
the nuclear deal, this approach has always suffered from major factual and logical flaws].
Given the casual and automatic manner in which references to Iran
supposedly sowing mayhem all over the region are routinely worked into
almost any discussion of policy toward Iran, it perhaps is too much to
expect many people to stop and study the flaws. Perhaps we should just
remind people who make those casual references that if Iran really were
bent on causing all that mayhem, that is all the more reason to support
an agreement to assure that the marauder does not get a nuclear weapon.
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