When all you have is a hammer, every Iran problem looks like a nail

Patrick Disney of the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council argues against Congress’s plans for “crippling sanctions” to blockade Iran's foreign supplies of gasoline, hoping that an increase in the price per gallon at the pump will cause the Iranian people to rise up and demand a halt to Iran's nuclear program....This plan has a number of obvious flaws."  Disney writes that “imposing broad sanctions on Iran will likely only destroy Iranian civil society and bolster the state's repressive apparatus--as it did in Iraq...Iran changed forever on June 12. We are now dealing with a completely altered country, and we would be wise to tailor our policies to reflect that reality. Congress should brainstorm some new ideas for how to support the Iranian people and still protect our security and nonproliferation objectives.”