Captain Ed has a nice summary about some of the ways the U.S. has been quietly reducing the amount of capital available in Iran—both for improving oil-industry infrastructure and for funding terrorism.

It helps to answer the question, "what are we doing about these guys?"

A fair amount, it turns out.

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Via James Joyner, who remarks

It would be harder for Iran to be much more isolated in the international community, as even the Russians have backed away from them in recent months. Still, sending such a strong signal that they are not responsible, rational actors makes no sense to me. Their position should be to try to force the world to take them seriously as a regional power, not to reinforce their status as a rogue state.

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I don't think it applies in the Middle East.

Haven't we been down this road with Iran before?

Via Insty.

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