Yes. Sanctions have never worked. They have been in place against Cuba for 50 years without bringing down Fidel Castro. Some 13 years of sanctions on Iraq failed to topple Saddam Hussein. After 14 years of US sanctions the military regime remains in Burma. Decades of sanctions on Iran have brought no regime change nor, most recently, persuaded Tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment programme
Open Iran to trade. Fund insurgent groups.
It’s really a shame we can’t trade the people here wanting to ‘open op’ communist dictatorships for the lives of the Americans those dictatorships killed. Because that would be my idea of fair trade.