To read the BBC article, "EU Pressures Iran to End Jamming" click here. Since the widespread protests against the Iranian government took place in France, Iran has been intentionally blocking satellite broadcasts from international channels. According to the EU foreign ministers they have demanded that Iran stop interfering with the broadcasts immediately. Some believe that the EU will impose trade sanctions that would stop Nokia Siemens, a mobile network company, from trading in Iran. The US has supported the possibility of the UN placing very burdensome sanctions on Iran since the beginning of the year but these sanctions have been stopped by China and Russia. However, these EU sanctions would be completely separate from any sanctions the US is pushing for. Alexander Stubb, Finland's foreign minister, has said that a resolutions remains the goal but that as time runs out they may have to place unilateral sanctions on Iran. This relates to what we have been learning in comparative government because any sanctions placed on Iran would hurt their economy which, in turn would hurt their government's legitimacy in the eyes of not only the people of Iran, but also of the rest of the world.
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