Bob Wright worries that the P5+1 talks may falter because of excessive Western caution on lifting some sanctions as part of an incremental dismantling of Iran's nuclear weapon capabilities. His suggestion?
One EU sanction–the embargo on Iranian oil that's scheduled to take effect in July–is tailor made for this occasion. The sanctions "relief" could just assume the form of delaying the onset of the embargo by a few months. Then if Iran didn't deliver on its commitments, the embargo would kick in automatically; enduring relief from the embargo would require additional EU action, contingent on demonstrated Iranian compliance. (This would in that sense be sanctions "relief" in which the default is set to "distrust".)
It is not surrender or appeasement to find ways to nudge a regime away from its worst temptations, when you have already forced it into a corner of sanctioned misery. A little relief in return for ending uranium enrichment at 20 percent levels and sending the rest abroad seems sensible to me.
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