Recently Sen. Chuck Schumer had an article in the Wall Street Journal arguing for Russia and the United States to work together on obtaining sanctions against Iran to halt their nuclear program. Opposition leader Garry Kasparov has a letter to the editor in response today.

Kremlin’s Mafia-Style Foreign Policy: Show Me the Cash Without addressing Sen. Charles Schumer’s central premise that sanctions would be effective against oil-rich Iran (“Russia Can Be Part of the Answer on Iran,” op-ed, June 3), I would like to address what appears to be a dangerously myopic view of Russia and Russian foreign policy.