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THE FIGHT CONTINUES: New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was feeling pretty good about the prospects for her bill that would remove serious, non-military crimes from the authority commanders and instead place them under the jurisdiction of professional military criminal prosecutors.

The U.N., EU and U.S. all sanctioned Iran at some point since 1980. While effective in some areas, the sanctions did not prevent Iran from cheating on its nuclear and ballistic missile obligations. President Biden has announced an intention to return in some form to the 2015 JCPOA — and from there, to negotiate another, stronger deal. In response, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the U.S. must first lift sanctions — most importantly, oil and banking sanctions, which are terrorism-...