Iran Says U.S.-Cuba Thaw Proves Sanctions Are Useless
Source: Bloomberg
The normalizing of ties between the U.S. and Cuba after decades of estrangement is proof sanctions don’t work, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said.
“Policies of isolationism and sanctions do not yield results,” Afkham was quoted as saying yesterday by the state-run Mehr news agency.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro’s announced a thaw in relations on Dec. 17 after half a century. Some analysts have drawn an analogy with Iran, which the U.S. hasn’t had ties with since 1980.
“Almost everything the president said about the failure of America’s Cuba policy could be said of our policy on Iran,” said Trita Pasi and Ryan Costello of the Washington-based National Iranian American Council. “There is little reason to expect that another 35 years of isolation would cause the Ayatollahs to surrender,” they wrote on Dec. 18 in the Huffington Post.
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