The Folly of Lifting Sanctions on the Deadliest Arm of the Iranian Regime
A move that would “endanger American lives.”
April 12, 2022
The Folly of Lifting Sanctions on the Deadliest Arm of the Iranian Regime
A move that would “endanger American lives.”
In exchange for agreeing to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, Tehran is demanding that the U.S. cease to consider its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S. has no intention of doing so, yet reports have also circulated that Foggy Bottom is seeking a workaround of some sort. Elliott Abrams and Behnam Ben Taleblu argue that any such compromise “would be pure strategic folly.”
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