Obama signed even harsher sanctions into law today.
Treasury Department officials have visited Turkey to urge the government to put the sanctions into effect.
Mr Zeman, who likes to speak in bons mots, turned sanctions into a yet another quip.
Soon after the raid, Department of Defense officials entered the names of the companies under sanctions into their databases.
People close to Mr Rohani suggest that he has a longer-term plan to use the momentum he would gain from lifting sanctions into reshaping the political system.
Indeed, increased international cooperation in putting the sanctions into effect is good news in the effort to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capability.
Not content to merely punish athletes while they are in school, the N.C.A.A. wants to extend sanctions into their professional careers as well.
The EU should also consider extending sanctions into the Russian financial sector, and the UK should stage an international donor conference in London.
But some Asian countries thought to be soft on trafficking, among them Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, are anti-terrorist allies of America and as a result may have slipped the noose of sanctions into tier two.
The president of the N.C.A.A., Mark Emmert, has made it clear that he wants to extend sanctions into college players' professional careers, and the players union, under the leadership of DeMaurice Smith, is listening.
The judge can decide to put the commission's sanctions into effect immediately, suspend them until Microsoft completes its appeal, or set interim sanctions that would take immediate effect while that appeal is heard.
