Chorus grows against Obama administration’s sanctions-heavy Iran policy - CSMonitor.com
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The Obama administration’s effort to end Iran’s nuclear program has focused on punitive measures, with little diplomatic outreach. Critics say this jeopardizes negotiations.
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“I was in the [State] Department when they kept talking about the so-called two-track policy, and it was clear the whole thing was nonsense, there never were two tracks,” says John Limbert, the former US deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran from 2009 to 2010.
“The sanctions took all the air out of the room. It was 95 percent sanctions, and that was on a good day.”
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