Shirin Ebadi warns against Iranian sanctions

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Source: BBC

Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has warned against imposing sanctions on her country, saying it would harm the population not the government.

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But she pleaded with western companies not to do business with Iran, the news agency AFP reported.

Companies trading with Iran should be censured, not Iran's people, she said.

"We oppose military attack on Iran or economic sanctions because that's to the detriment of the people," she said.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8549183.stm

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1. The other problem with sanctions is that they leave no room short of war.

People don't seem to understand that sanctions are themselves a highly provocative act. In order to be effective, they must be accompanied by an embargo that can easily escalate to armed conflict.

This isn't a good idea, unless of course the Obama Administration wants to fight a much, much wider regional and possibly global war.