Iran Continues to Produce Disinformation

Abolghasem Bayyenat, reportedly a trade expert for the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ministry of Commerce, and admittedly a former political officer in its Foreign Ministry, recently penned an article entitled "Economic Sanctions Against Iran".¹ In it, he claims that sanctions are counter-productive, causing pain only to the Iranian people and causing the regime further to resist efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the problem of nuclear proliferation. In his essay, Bayyenat suggests that Iran has successfully mitigated most of the effects of the sanctions, and that they are only hurting the innocent Iranian population.