Before We Bomb Iran …

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Author(s) Jonathan Alter
Source Newsweek
Date October 15, 2007
URL http://www.newsweek.com/id/43363
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Quotes-start.png "As the antiapartheid movement found, divestment helps put more starch in government sanctions. If the 400 or so European and Asian companies doing business in Iran were forced by global investors to withdraw, they would be upset about it, but less motivated to weaken sanctions imposed by their own countries. Isolation and the threat of economic collapse wouldn't necessarily drive the regime from power, as Gaffney thinks, but it could strengthen the opposition in ways that angry rhetoric from Washington won't." Quotes-end.png


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