But even accelerated sanctions are hard to put into effect and slow to work, while Iran is changing the game by moving more of its enrichment centrifuges into deep tunnels inside mountains, where they will be much harder to attack militarily.
WASHINGTON — When President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel met in the White House on Monday, the main subject was how to calibrate the resumption of negotiations with Iran while continuing to accelerate sanctions and sabotage against its nuclear program.
"A drop-off in exports is forecast for 2015 as major programmes draw to a close, a trend that could be accelerated by sanctions," it said.
A standoff between Turkey and the United States, which has imposed sanctions, accelerated a long decline in the lira this year over fears of mismanagement of the economy.
The so-called policy of "deoffshorisation" and nationalisation of the elites has been at the heart of Putin's third-term presidency, and it is now accelerated by the sanctions and the economic crisis as a whole.
The DWP made the choice to accelerate the benefit sanction system, increasing the length of time a sanction could last, as well as the amount of money it can take from disabled and chronically ill people; and, equally, it can make the choice to halt it.
All told, sanctions "dramatically accelerated the worst-case scenario," says Natalia Orlova of Alfa Bank.
The sanctions have accelerated Venezuela's vicious economic cycle, where declining oil exports leave Mr. Maduro with less money to invest in basic services.
But it would be far from humiliating for Iran, while making it a lot harder and riskier than it is now for the country to attempt to breakout (or "sneakout" through a clandestine facility).The much likelier alternative to a comprehensive deal this month is not a collapse of diplomacy, carrying the risk of escalatory sanctions and accelerated centrifuge production, but another extension of talks.
The current crisis has accelerated the erosion of international sanctions against Iraq, allowing Mr. Hussein to argue that doing business with him is, by implication, striking a blow against America, which is excoriated regionally as the protector of Israel.
A close look at the record shows that although Pyongyang has never given up its drive for a nuclear deterrent, nuclear progress slowed significantly during times of diplomacy and accelerated during times of isolation, sanctions and threats.
