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They've produced analyses

They've produced analyses that have proven to be more reliable.

And if you read the one I've linked to, you'll see it makes a lot more sense than the one Fareed and the rest of the MSM are trying to peddle. 

Sargord

how is that report more credible? If so, what is not getting more play except from thus supporters of the regime?

Pathetic!

The only super power in the world, the strongest superoppwer in the history of mankind id hoping that "some day" sanctions might have an "effect!!

 This is a joke to keep you and I busy belieivng that the U.S is againts IRI. This is a Zargary Jang. Don't fall for it! If they really wanted to, they would have replaced IRI long time ago.

Don't fall for it!

 //www.cfr.org/publ

 //www.cfr.org/publication/22773/weakened_but_resourceful_iran.html?utm_source=feedburner

Free Iran:  An outstanding piece by Hossein G. Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University.  As this site has always stated, it’s the economy, stupid!

Give us a broad-brush overview of Iran’s economy. Is it chugging along just fine, or on the precipice of collapse?

Let me put that in a historic context. If you go back to the time of the [Islamic] Revolution [in 1979], Iran's economy was about double that of South Korea's. Today, South Korea's is four times that of Iran's. Another dimension is oil. Around the time of the revolution, Iran's oil production was around six million barrels a day. Today, we're talking about three and a half million barrels a day. Real per capita income in Iran over the last thirty years has gone up very, very slightly--depending on how you do the calculations, less than 1 percent. The reason for that is, primarily, Iran's misguided and terrible [economic] policy. The Iranian government has basically gone the way of subsidies, which they adopted during the Iran-Iraq war [in the 1980s], and they really neglected the private sector. There's a second reason--a very, very costly eight-year war between Iran and Iraq. It was devastating for Iran's infrastructure. A third reason is that Iran has had, in the early years after the revolution, very, very rapid population growth. [According to the UN's Population Division, Iran's population rose from thirty-nine million in 1980 to nearly seventy-one million in 2005.] And lastly, there are of course sanctions. ..

//www.cfr.org/publication/22773/weakened_but_resourceful_iran.html?utm_source=feedburner

IRI

IRI should go with ANY means possible!

Sanctions have worked already

But it will not be enough to change the regime - which is what people of Iran as well as the whole world needs.

Sanctions are illegal

These sanctions are illegal and go against international norms.  The USA has violated ALL International laws including Alger Accord it SIGNED!!

IRI must change, but it is not upto neo-con's to say so.

According to the USA State Dept. if someone such as Fred makes threat or advocates bombing(s), he is a terrorist.

Iranian.com is used to promote hatred and spread terrorist activities. 

Well, I think it is way to

Well, I think it is way to early to tell if the sanctions are having real and lasting affect on IRI, but it is obvious that it has had some affect. At the same time, I was just reading last night that EU is having second thought about the sanction since China, Russia, Turkey and Pakistan have refused US demand and are doing business with Iran, including selling fuel. This has left EU companies with the prospect of losing much business to China.

Meanwhile, US has soften its stands and are talking more overtly about the two track approach, sanction and diplomacy.

Mehrdad

Fareed's peddling a false

Fareed's peddling a false narrative.

The Leveretts' have a far more credible perspective:

//www.raceforiran.com/sanctions-the-trr-and-the-future-of-nuclear-diplomacy-an-iranian-perspective 

Yep, The sanctions are working.

That is why the islamsit khalifat's agents here on Iranian.com are howling louder than ever with anger and frustration.

Good Job Fred.

sanctions will never work

if you want the regime to be toppled, then you better be prepared to wage a civil war. all those who "hope" that sanctions work are naive, irresponsible and dont give a crap about further iranian suffering.

Fred did u get that airtight idea from ur beloved radio israel?

Or did you learn it at the AIPAC conference?

Can they do the public a

Can they do the public a service and sanction the export of Iranian brides?  Now that is a sanction I can stand behind. 

Dream on!

Sanctions and other pressure tactics will be made to seem to work for those who desperately want to see them work!

The sanctions will be undermined by backchannels and under-the-table deals and circuitous routes and various other means!

In the long run Iran's standing in the Muslim world and particularly by the people of the Middle-East will improve by not only surviving the sanctions but also by becoming stronger by defying the Western Powers.

I hope sanctions work

This is the final stop before a full fledged war. I hope these sanctions bring down this government once and foe all and spare misery of Iranian people.

Agree

Sanctions are working but what they need to do is add another thing to it:

An order of arrest for the former and the current leadeship of IRR, the moment they set foot out of Iran to be taken to hague to face an international tribunal  for charges of crimes against humanity.

Airthight them and more

The existing sanctions are just too weak and need to be airtight.  There is also the need to delegitimize the Islamist Rapists by publicly and officially calling for the overthrow of their illegitimate rule.

To save the world from a nuke packing messianic Islamist Rapists bent on “managing the world” more needs to be done and done NOW!