Olivier Guitta at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies argues that specific sanctions against Iran’s energy sector could be the most powerful tool to avert military escalation. “An international export ban of refined petroleum products to Iran, coupled with an embargo on the 2.5 million barrels per day (3 percent of world consumption) that Iran exports” could plunge Iran “in a deep economic and social hole that could jeopardize the regime.”
