With drilling now limited off the Gulf Coast, oil businesses might have even greater incentive to engage in business elsewhere — even in Iran. This could provide a great boost to the economy of this rogue regime, unless the U.S. acts to prevent such engagements. Barack Obama and his surrogates first promised “crippling” sanctions, and have now settled on “biting” sanctions. Whatever the semantics, the gas sanctions bill, as Mark Dubowitz writes in the Hill, is needed now:

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