USIP Sanctions Expert Comments on Security Council Action Against Iran
For Immediate Release, June 9, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org (Washington) - George Lopez, Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the United States of Peace, reacted to the United Nations passage of new sanctions against Iran: The new U.N. resolution captures the important policy subtlety that sanctions must pressure for compliance, not punish for capitulation. It provides an effective balance between a sanctions bite that hurts and a style of imposition that ...