Wednesday
Nov142012
Iran Opinion: Sanctions Support Regime's "Internet Repression" (Tehran Bureau)
See also EA Video Analysis: Iran Sanctions, Human Rights, and the Nuclear Issue
The choking off of access to essential online technology is punishing a people already subject to relentless oppression by an increasingly totalitarian system. It also signifies the larger problem of the overzealous application of supposedly "smart" sanctions that extends them far beyond their intended targets and dumbs down their effects in flagrantly counterproductive ways.