Just in case a very small number of you might have thought Yemen was really producing those missiles they are firing at Saudi Arabia, the US announced sanctions against people in Iran who work for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. So, there is little doubt now that Iran was supplying those missiles - even though most of us knew that anyway. Iran might be surprised at the way the sanctions were made.
In a widely circulated story today the sanctions were levied against five individuals. There is an old saying about making people responsible by personalizing their risk. That is what these kind of sanctions do. They don’t make some vague organizations responsible for the transfer of the missiles; they make specific individuals responsible. That personalized the risk for anyone else who might think about doing the same thing. In a place like Iran, that may not do very much good in the short run, but it plays better when travel, financial, and communications restrictions apply to more and more of the leadership.
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