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1:30 PM, Sep 2, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYWEEKLY STANDARD contributors Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz write in today's Washington Post that as in the wake of Libya, President Obama appears to have grown more comfortable projecting American power. As such, "Syria will be his real test. The arguments for supporting Syrian protesters are easily as strong as those mustered to save the people of Benghazi."
The authors note that the strategic conditions in Syria are favorable for U.S. action:
Read more... 5:20 PM, Jun 1, 2011 • By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Berlin—In separate efforts, Republican congressmen Mike Conaway and Peter King have confronted the world's third largest shipping company—the French-owned CMA CGM—for enabling Iranian arms to be smuggled aboard container ships.
Read more... 1:23 PM, May 18, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERAfter hundreds of deaths of protesters at the hands of Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria, the U.S. "will impose sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad for human rights abuses on Wednesday," Reuters reports.
Read more... 5:10 PM, Apr 26, 2011 • By AVI JORISCH
As Iran continues to flout United Nations Security Council resolutions on nuclear proliferation, policymakers in United States and Europe have come to view tough economic and financial sanctions as perhaps the last peaceful means of bringing the Islamic Republic into line.
Read more... 3:02 PM, Apr 8, 2011 • By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Berlin
Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Israel’s existence.
Read more... And stop Iran from getting nukes.11:00 AM, Mar 31, 2011 • By MARK DUBOWITZ AND LAURA GROSSMAN
The Obama administration made the correct decision earlier this week to impose sanctions on Belarusneft, a subsidiary of the Belarusian petrochemical company Belneftekhim, for doing business with Iran. But it’s small beer – Belarusneft is hardly a major player in Iran’s energy industry. And this latest announcement of sanctions suggests to some in Congress that the administration is not really that serious about enforcing sanctions on Iran after all.
Read more... 12:06 PM, Feb 25, 2011 • By JAIME DAREMBLUM
It got lost amid the remarkable dispatches from Egypt and the broader Middle East, but last week Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela revealed some big news about Hugo Chávez and Iran. Speaking to a House subcommittee on February 15, he said the U.S. government is investigating whether Venezuela recently defied American sanctions by sending gasoline to the Islamic Republic.
Read more... 12:05 PM, Feb 4, 2011 • By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
U.S. frustration with German chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, seems to have reached a breaking point this week. Germany’s recalcitrant position about shutting down Iran’s main financial conduit in Europe – the Hamburg-based European-Iranian Trade Bank (EIH) – prompted a bipartisan group of U.S. senators on February 1 to issue a strongly worded letter to German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle.
Read more... Exposing how the Swiss are enabling Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program.3:37 PM, Oct 5, 2010 • By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Berlin
Switzerland’s Social Democratic controlled Foreign Ministry is upset with THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s criticism of how its foreign policies serve as a crutch for Iran’s drive to obtain nuclear weapons and finance Hamas and Hezbollah.
Read more... Take other drastic measures, or let the mullahs get the bomb?3:20 PM, Oct 4, 2010 • By MARK DUBOWITZ
After enacting comprehensive energy sanctions on companies that do business with Iran, and encouraging 31 other countries to follow suit, last Thursday the United States announced penalties against only a single firm for violating them.
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