Neta Crawford, a professor of political science at Boston University who studied the effect of oil sanctions against apartheid in South Africa, said even leaky sanctions there strained the economy and fractured the elites' hold on society.
"Sanctions deny them their resource, force them to pay a premium for that resource, and then the cost of evading the embargo just means they don't have the resources to do whatever it was they initially wanted to do," Crawford said.
"Everything they do to evade sanctions becomes a huge tax. It creates these huge grey and black market economies, and people who wouldn't have been empowered become empowered
by making a whole lot of money."
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Eyval Ostaad,
by Q on Sat Aug 08, 2009 09:19 PM PDTthe warmongers are sneaking a fast one by us in the name of "supporting Iran". And there are plenty of morons going along with the ride. Thanks for the post.