Sanctions of our Time: Iran, Venezuela and the Kingpins

‘We can continue to see them as an adversary or threat…and [still] negotiate an end to their nuclear program’. In this episode, recorded in February before the scale of the global COVID-19 outbreak became apparent, Kieran Beer and Adam Szubin discuss the effectiveness of sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, and the Kingpin Act. A sanctions insider for many years, Adam Szubin has a distinguished history of service with the US Treasury, including nine years as the Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). As one of the architects of the JCPOA, he’s uniquely placed to comment on the current US administration’s shifts in sanctions policy, and the effect they’re having on geopolitics – far beyond the borders of Iran. Adam Szubin Biography: https://sais.jhu.edu/users/aszubin1