Panama deserves sanctions, not the Security Council presidency

UANI Chairman Governor Jeb Bush and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace write: This month, Panama holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council — a position that confers moral authority, policy influence and global prestige as the representative “face” of the Council. But given Panama’s longstanding and conscious role in undermining sanctions on Iran, this honor is deeply wrong and misguided. In fact, Panama should not be elevated — it should be sanctioned. A country that enables Iran’s sanctions evasion should not be rewarded with the symbolic leadership of the very body charged with upholding those sanctions.