Iran Policy Analyst

Tzvi Kahn

3 articles 2014–2018

Tzvi Kahn is a foreign policy analyst focused on Iran, sanctions policy, and human rights in the Middle East. He is a senior research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2014 and 2018 examining Iranian government abuses and U.S. sanctions policy.

How Iran Sanctions Failed

November 17, 2014 · Barack Obama, Blog, Foreign Policy

How to explain America’s failure, after 20 years of efforts, to impose genuinely crippling sanctions on Iran? Start with the penchant of the executive branch—from Presidents Clinton to Obama—for excluding Congress from the process.