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Stephen Kinzer: “Sanctions enable a criminal class; in Iran, the…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

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The speedboats are going across the Persian Gulf from Dubai 20 times a day. Who is running those? Not law abiding … Sanctions enable a criminal class; in Iran, the Revolutionary Guard profits from sanctions. … class. I saw this in Serbia also. It used to be smugglers and thugs. Then they built up private armies and they were the ones that would go into villages that were the wrong religion and burned down the village. (1:02:53–1:03:01)

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Asserts that sanctions create opportunities for criminal enterprises, specifically benefiting Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

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