Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative-leaning policy institute in Washington, said that targeted sanctions had a track record of "early success". He noted that the mere threat of such sanctions in the past had already caused some companies, such as British Petroleum, to stop doing business with Iran."We have already seen that just the threat of sanctions has had a measurable cost on Iran's ability to import gasoline," he said in a statement.

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