Ervin Hladnik Milharčič on the senselessness of sanctions against Iran

Ervin Hladnik Milharčič writes in his column that the economic sanctions against Iran have kept the regime of the Ayatollah Kohmeini and his successors alive over the past thirty years. "The sanctions of the last three decades had an interesting impact. The Iranians have developed precisely that technology which the West believed they shouldn't have. … Naturally Washington is now concerned. … The Obama government … has called on its European allies to toughen the sanctions. … This is precisely the formula that kept the Ayatollah regime … alive. All Iran needs to keep up the repressive measures against its own people is the economic and political pressure of the US and friendly approval of these measures from Europe. In June elections will be held in Iran. Harsher sanctions … are the best gift one could make to the religious conservatives in the election campaign. After the new US president promised major change we are now witnessing his first steps. Everything that didn't work in the past thirty years will continue to be deemed clever policy."

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