May 26, 2022 – While millions of Iranians are struggling to make ends meet, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s oldest and largest independent non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on poverty alleviation, the Imam Ali Popular Student Relief ...
High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document leaked to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has revealed senior intelligence and military officials’ internal assessment of the country’s severe social and ...
IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased in recent years, given the increasing economic pressures,” said Iran’s deputy interior minister in charge of the Social Services ...
Unpaid Wages and Benefits, Unfair Wages Trigger Increasingly Organized Strikes Labor Activists Jailed Under Trumped-Up Charges April 30, 2021 – As International Labor Day approaches, workers across Iran are facing a deepening crisis and inability to meet ...
Violence “Unacceptable,” Free Flow of Information Must Be Ensured The European Union’s External Action Committee, which manages the EU's diplomatic relations with other countries and conducts EU foreign and security policy for the 28-country bloc, released ...
Mr. Idriss Jazairy, Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures GENEVA (22 August 2018) – Sanctions must be just, and must not lead to the suffering of ...
The international community should target sanctions more effectively to impose costs on the Iranian government and not its citizens, and the Iranian government should end its policies that worsen the crisis in access to medicines, foods, and other essential imports, the International Campaign for Human ...
This study was researched and written by Dr. Dariush Zahedi for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Dr. Zahedi is a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Conclusion The purpose of this study is to alert the international community to the mounting costs inflicted on the ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Medicine and Healthcare Crucially, the combination of sanctions and mismanagement has also reduced the availability and quality ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Professional Middle Class, Small Business Owners, and Bazaaris Signs of ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Manufacturing, Blue Collar Workers, and the Urban Poor Perhaps nowhere are ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Consequences for the Iranian Economy The most important arena in which the interplay between sanctions ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Crippling Sanctions US President Obama signed the most consequential component of the sanctions into law on December 31, ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Ahmadinejad Period (2005-Present) Even before the imposition of the 2012 sanctions, however, the sanctions regime against ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Khatami Period (1997-2005) Neither the US nor any other country imposed additional sanctions on Iran during ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Rafsanjani Period (1989-1997) With the exception of the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-proliferation Act, which was signed into ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights The Khomeini Period (1979-1989) During the time that Ayatollah Khomeini was ruling Iran, sanctions against the Islamic ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Iran’s Economic Malaise from 1979–2012 This section will assess the impact of sanctions ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Introduction This study will examine the impact of increasingly stringent and comprehensive sanctions on the ability ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Recommendations To the governments of the United States and the European Union: 1. Make clear and explicit statements regarding the ...
A Growing Crisis: The Impact of Sanctions and Regime Policies on Iranians' Economic and Social Rights Executive Summary Despite the international community’s stated intention to direct sanctions at the government of Iran for its ...
