{"id":37818,"date":"2021-08-05T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T14:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37818"},"modified":"2021-08-05T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T14:25:25","slug":"the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-iran-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/05\/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-iran-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Bankruptcy of the Iran Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh dress up<\/a> the same failed sanctions approach as a \u201cnew approach” to Iran:<\/p>\n

Since sanctions became serious in 2018, Iran has seen major demonstrations without protesters venting against America. The clerical regime views these protests as potential rebellions; we should, too. <\/i><\/p>\n

The Biden administration says it wants to amp up the U.S. commitment to democratic values abroad. The biggest potential return on investment is in Iran. Mr. Khamenei\u2019s selection of Mr. Raisi should tell the White House it has nothing now to lose by trying. <\/i><\/p>\n

It would almost be amusing that Gerecht and Takeyh refer to this as a \u201cfar more moral and practical foreign policy\u201d if it weren\u2019t so morally bankrupt and evil. The US has been inflicting collective punishment on more than eighty million Iranians in a vain bid to compel their government to capitulate on a wide range of issues. All Trump-era sanctions remain in place. The strangling of the Iranian people has not stopped. I don\u2019t know if impoverishing and starving innocent people is a \u201cpolitical loser\u201d in this country, but I do know that it is a malicious, cruel, and inhumane policy that decent people should abhor. As usual, Iran hawks propose the same mindless and destructive policy of causing massive harm to the Iranian people and then spout a lot of empty rhetoric about supporting the people and promoting human rights. <\/p>\n

Iranian protesters have plenty of legitimate grievances against their own government, but no one should think that the US isn\u2019t deeply mistrusted and resented because of the economic war that it has been waging on the people. The 2021 Iran Poll survey<\/a> had a lot to tell us about Iranian public opinion on sanctions and the US The report<\/a> on the survey stated:<\/p>\n

Nearly half say the US sanctions have had a \u201cgreat negative impact,\u201d and over four in five say the sanctions have had a negative impact \u201con the lives of ordinary people.\u201d These levels are almost unchanged from 2019. <\/i><\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at SubStack<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Larison is a weekly columnist for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia<\/a>. He is former senior editor at<\/i> The American Conservative. He has been published in the<\/i> New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and<\/i> Culture11, and was a columnist for<\/i> The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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