Putin’s Response to EU Sanctions: See You in Court

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Sanctions challenges are more likely to be filed in Europe than in the U.S. because European courts rarely allow governments to present classified evidence under seal, which can make it difficult to explain the rationale for sanctions, says Mark Dubowitz of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Dubowitz, whose group has lobbied for tough sanctions against Iran, says he knows of no case in which Iranian sanctions have been successfully challenged in the U.S. By contrast, he says, European courts have annulled sanctions in nine Iranian cases so far. In most instances the EU has said it plans to reimpose the sanctions, backing them with stronger justifications.
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