Who Can Enforce Iran Sanctions?

It sounds pretty simple: if negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program stall/don’t restart/break down, put together a sanctions package on Iran’s oil imports. (Yes, Iran has the world’s second-or-third proven highest oil reserves, but it still imports gasoline.) But here’s the soft underbelly, reports David Sanger at The More…

Bush Waives Sanctions Under Burma Bill

Seems he just couldn’t resist.

With just days left in his tenure, President George W. Bush yesterday scrapped a portion of a Burma-sanctions law that was intended to weaken the country’s brutal military junta by freezing the assets of its leaders.