I like a good headline. That’s Matt Duss’s headline at Think Progress. The beginning of his post:
Here’s the headline of an editorial in today’s Washington Post:
“Sanctions aren’t slowing Iran’s nuclear progress.”
And this is from the May report of the United Nations special experts panel on the impact of sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council in June 2010:
“[Sanctions] are constraining Iran’s procurement of items related to prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile activity and thus slowing development of these programs.”
It is certainly fair to ask whether or not these measures actually serve the goal of a negotiated solution to the nuclear impasse. But it’s simply false to claim that they’re having no impact on the program…
