Iran Sanctions

On March 3, 2023, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in Abu Dhabi which aims to increase trade between the two countries to $40...

In Late December, the U.S. Treasury Department issued new regulatory filings as part of what it billed as a “historic” effort to address the humanitarian cost of sanctions. The core...

Reports of an increase in clandestine Iranian operations against persons abroad—including, but not limited to, exiled Iranian dissidents—will naturally feed the most disparaging images of Iran. Such images commonly feature...

Protests in Iran have raged day and night since Mahsa Amini’s death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by the morality police. The circumstances surrounding Amini’s death are horrible,...

Iranian leader Ebrahim Raisi condemned President Joe Biden over the weekend after he voiced support for the ongoing protest movement in Iran—a set of remarks that Raisi suggested were a...

After Russian president Vladimir Putin formally annexed four Ukrainian regions last month, the United States responded with more punitive sanctions against Moscow. Yet in its quest to counter Putin’s aggression,...

The brutal murder of a twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, at the hands of the Islamic Republic’s “morality police” for wearing her hijab “improperly” has sparked an unforeseen uprising...

The British government announced on Monday that it had imposed economic sanctions against Iran’s morality police, the Gasht-e Ershad, following the death in custody of twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Amini. The British...

“These men have not slept for nights.” That’s what Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the chief of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary, said about Iran’s security forces in a recently leaked video. Despite...

With the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) 2022 summit in Samarkand drawn to a close, Iran has signed a Memorandum of Obligations to become a permanent member state of the alliance. Tehran,...

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi gave his first major, international in-person speech since his 2021 election on Wednesday, when he addressed the seventy-seventh United Nations General Assembly in New York. Raisi’s...

The negotiations between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, on how to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), more commonly referred to as the Iran...