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May 19, 2024 · Iran might evolve from being a hybrid military and clerical regime to being more of a military one. That could mean less religious conservatism at home but even more antagonism abroad.
Oct 23, 2023 · Iran uses proxy forces to advance its national security objectives: pushing adversaries like the United States, which has more than 30,000 troops stationed across various facilities in the Middle...
May 23, 2024 · Iran’s relationship with nuclear technology has always been ambiguous, even ambivalent. Both during the regime of the pro-western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the 1960s and 1970s and the anti ...
Aug 24, 2023 · Iranians have a long history of fighting for national sovereignty. As the once-powerful Iran, known then as Persia, grew weaker in the nineteenth century during the Qajar dynasty, it faced increasing pressure from Imperial Russia and Great Britain. Russia repeatedly seized Iranian territory.
- Introduction
- Why Does Iran Face Sanctions?
- What Are The U.S. Sanctions?
- What Are The Un Sanctions?
- What Are The EU Sanctions?
- What Has Been The Impact of Sanctions?
- When Would Sanctions Be lifted?
The United States, the United Nations, and the European Union have levied multiple sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program since the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, found in September 2005 that Tehran was not compliant[PDF] with its international obligations. The United States spearheaded international e...
Iran faces international sanctions for a clandestine nuclear program that the IAEA and major powers say violate its treaty obligations. When Iran acceded to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1967, it promised to never become a nuclear-armed state. But over the course of the 1970s, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s policies raised U.S. concerns that I...
U.S. sanctions cover a variety of purposes related to the country’s internal and external affairs, ranging from weapons proliferation to human rights abuses within Iran to state sponsorship of terrorism and fomenting instability abroad. They target broad sectors as well as specific individuals and entities, both Iranian nationals and nonnationals w...
The UN Security Council has progressively built up an international sanctions regime binding on all its member states ever since the IAEA declared Iran noncompliant with its safeguards obligations in 2005. In a first round of sanctions, in 2006, the Security Council unanimously approvedmeasures that included an embargo on materials and technology u...
The EU has augmented UN penalties against Iran with sanctions that are “nearly as extensive as those of the United States,” according to the nonpartisan U.S.-funded Congressional Research Service (CRS). A 2007 measure froze the assets of individuals and entities related to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs, and prohibited the transfer o...
International sanctions have taken a severe toll on the Iranian economy. In April 2015, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew estimatedthat Iran’s economy was 15 to 20 percent smaller than it would have been had sanctions not been ratcheted up in 2012 and cost $160 billion in lost oil revenue alone. In addition, more than $100 billion in Iranian assets...
Iran will regain access to international energy markets and the global financial system once the IAEA verifies that it has granted IAEA inspectors sufficient access to nuclear facilities and taken agreed-upon steps to restrict its nuclear program. The comprehensive agreement directs the P5+1 to prepare the legal and administrative groundwork for re...
- Zachary Laub
Dec 9, 2019 · Iran's economy was badly affected for several years by sanctions imposed by the international community over the country's nuclear programme. In 2015, President Hassan Rouhani agreed a deal with...
Sep 15, 2023 · Iran has occupied a central place in the U.S. foreign policy agenda since the 1979 revolution that ousted its pro-Western monarchy. The ruling system forged in the revolution’s aftermath was...
