The Repeated Failure of Sanctions

If you want the Iranian government to stop expanding its nuclear program, you need to stop sanctioning them over their nuclear program.

Dan Drezner wrote up a good summary of the failure of the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran:

Catastrophic policy failures live in infamy. The best Iran hawks can hope for in the next few years is a policy failure that does not quite compare to Munich.

Drezner is right that the policy is a total failure on its own terms. The Trump administration cla…