UN Report: Iranian Sanctions Violations Are Routinely Ignored by West

A United Nations panel found that Western nations have systematically ignored Iranian violations of international sanctions so as not to jeopardize the talks over Iran’s illicit nuclear program, Bloomberg News reported today. The sanctions were put in place because of the country’s nuclear proliferation and support for terror.

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The report prompted Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, to charge the Obama administration with ignoring the violations out of political expediency. “This is a clear political decision not to publicize these examples of sanctions evasion in order to ensure that public reporting on this doesn’t in any way jeopardize the talks or harden congressional resolve,” Dubowitz told Bloomberg. “The Obama administration has bent over backwards to try and whitewash Iranian violations both on the nuclear side and also on the sanction-busting side.”

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