Avi Jorisch is a Middle East analyst, author, and former U.S. Treasury Department official specializing in terror finance and sanctions policy. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2011 focusing on Iran's financial networks and geopolitical conflicts in the region.
As the Obama administration reviews its Afghanistan and Pakistan policy, looking for creative means to challenge extremist funding, the drug trade is increasingly coming into focus.
As Iran continues to flout United Nations Security Council resolutions on nuclear proliferation, policymakers in United States and Europe have come to view tough economic and financial sanctions as perhaps the last peaceful means of bringing the Islamic Republic into line. It’s true that…