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The recently enacted sanctions legislation is likely the most significant measure on Iran that Congress has ever passed, and certainly the most important legislation on the subject since 1996, when the original Iran Sanctions Act was signed into law.

Iran’s economic strengths are paradoxically also its weaknesses, and the new law seeks to take advantage of that. The goal of the bill is to drive Iran’s economy into a crisis and force its leaders to the negotiating table. There are generous offers on that table right now should Iran agree to end enrichment and other sensitive nuclear activity.

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