Earlier this month, the United States implemented additional economic sanctions against Iran in an attempt to further isolate the Iranian regime and deprive it of the benefits of international commerce. These new sanctions are the latest in a series of restrictive measures adopted in response to concerns about Iran’s attempts to process fission material and increasingly hostile rhetoric towards its neighbors in the region. The new sanctions expand already restrictive existing measures by, among other things, expanding the extraterritorial reach of U.S. sanctions.

The United States has sought to tighten the economic noose around the Iranian regime over the course of the past three years by enacting the following...