Crucial useful resource Tehran can share with Moscow is experience in evading Western sanctions. Iran’s clerical regime reportedly is speaking with the Kremlin about working collectively to get across the restrictions they each face. If the U.S. and its allies wish to restrict this kind of cooperation, they need to study from the errors they made whereas using sanctions to stop Iran from buying nuclear weapons.
Iran’s sanctions-evasion strategies are refined and sweeping. The Journal reported final month that Tehran has developed a “clandestine banking and finance system to deal with tens of billions of {dollars} in annual commerce banned underneath U.S.-led sanctions.”
