Which Sanctions on Iran are being Traded Away?

The Obama administration seems ready to give Iran a "get out of sanctions free card" despite its support for terrorism, its missile program and its human rights violations.

Nuclear-related economic sanctions are the key sticking point in the negotiations with Iran, set to conclude June 30. Most attention is being focused on how quickly sanctions will be lifted, and on "snap-back," the supposed ability to reimpose sanctions should Iran be caught cheating on the deal.

But exactly which sanctions are being traded away? Presumably, the only sanctions that should be in play are those that relate to the nuclear weapons program. But many others have nothing to do with nuclear arms. They were imposed on Iran to deter missile proliferation, fight state sponsorship of terrorism, and punish human rights violations. None of these issues has been on the table at Geneva, so it follows that none of these sanctions should be lifted. But the Associated Press reports that the White House is going to try to lift at least some of them.

Iran's former Pres Ahmadinejad and Castro 
holding hands. Now isn't that sweet?

Iran faces many sanctions solely by being on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. On May 13, President Obama told Al Arabiya that "Iran clearly engages in dangerous and destabilizing behavior in different countries across the region" and "is a state sponsor of terrorism." Will all the terror-related sanctions stay in place then, or does the White House contemplate removing Iran from this list, as it has recently with Cuba?

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