(Foreign Policy) Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht - Before the Iranian regime's brutal effort to crush the protests following the June 12 presidential election, an Iranian cab driver who couldn't buy gasoline would probably curse the Americans. After witnessing the brutal crackdown and his fellow citizens dying in the streets, he now might very well blame the regime. We suspect senior Iranian officials have been so loud in mocking the effectiveness of gasoline sanctions because the regime knows it still does not have the requisite reserve capacity to stop such sanctions from fomenting even more distaste for the regime on the Iranian street.
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