Iranian economy unwisely helped by Germany

by Douglas Stone

Listen up, Germany, next time you want to invest in Iran’s economy.

And now, yet again, by helping to sustain an Iranian regime attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. Even as Chancellor Merkel stands before Israel’s Knesset to tut tut her concern over the mullahs, Germany isn’t even taking the least costly steps to help keep Iran from achieving its nuclear ambitions.

Among the Western industrial powers, no country is more enthusiastic than Germany about trading with Iran and supplying it with the advanced goods crucial to its economy. Whether a German boycott of Iran would finally force Iran to respect demands for a shutdown of its nuclear efforts is unclear; what is clear is that without Germany adhering to tough sanctions there cannot be sufficient pressure on the Iranians to modify their behavior.

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