Too often, the effect of unilateral sanctions is that the countries we are trying to punish merely buy our products from other countries. The irony is that the ones who are punished the most are our own people. They are the employees of Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. in Rockford, Illinois, who have been prevented from building and selling two multi-million dollar machines to an electric utility in India since unilateral sanctions kicked in last year after the governments of Pakistan and India tested nuclear devices. But that sale, which would go a long way to helping our grain farmers, will not happen because of our standing sanctions against the Iranian government. We must take every opportunity possible within the boundaries of national security to give American farmers and factory workers a chance to survive these difficult times.
American jobs are at stake.