[Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the Iranian people

[Robert Naiman]

During the Q&A, Kirk brushed aside concerns that a gasoline embargo
will hurt innocent Iranians and stated that, in fact, the US should
punish innocent Iranians as a means to engineer anti-government
protests in Iran:

"Q: The oil embargo or quarantine sounds like a very plausible
alternative ... why the opposition from the administration?

Kirk: Um, in a discussion I recently had with administrative
[Administration?] officials they said we would feel worried that it
would hurt the Iranian people... (laughs)

But it's that actual pain that I think has to be imposed, in my view,
a gasoline quarantine would immediately trigger anti-American
demonstrations in downtown Tehran, organized by the regime."

- Mark Kirk's Fuzzy Iran Logic
Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council, March 5, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/mark-kirks-fuzzy-iran-log_b_488028.html

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

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