Sanctions Have Slashed Ayatollah Iran’s War-Making Capacity

An Iranian locally made cruise missile is fired during war games in the northern Indian Ocean and near the entrance to the Gulf, Iran, on June 17, 2020. West Asia News Agency via Reuters

Commentary

As October began, Iran’s religious dictators were peddling a narrative of imminent triumph on “a momentous day,” Oct. 18. On that day, the 13-year-long U.N. arms embargo imposed on Iranian security forces would expire. U.N. Security Council members Russia and China refused to renew it. Both dictatorships acknowledge they would love to sell weapons to Iran.