Likewise, for the Iranian regime, objectives could encompass not just survival and sanction-busting but also a desire to inflict economic harm on the United States and threaten the viability of Israel.

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In America alone, there has been a whack-a-mole game going on for years, in which American officials--at the Treasury, Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, and so on--have been chasing down an astounding array of Iranian-related suppliers, front companies, money-laundering operations, and sanction-busting sales to Iran's weapons programs, including its U.N.

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