'Instead of persuading authoritarian and aggressive leaders to change their ways, broad sanctions have reinforced anti-democratic tendencies and incentivized nuclear and other proliferation.'
to maintain control over this small nation of 25 million people, with the support of China which would rather have a nuclear pariah as its neighbor than a unified, prosperous and democratic Korean peninsula.
The domestic political situation in Iran has also deteriorated under sanctions. Trump's trashing of the JCPOA destroyed the political fortunes of those within the Iranian regime who supported the deal and ushered in a unitary hard-right administration whose efforts to reinforce laws requiring women to wear headscarves and modest clothing have now boomeranged spectacularly. Thethat broke out in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini on Sept.
, by the government's own standards, with the decline occurring since the introduction of broad sanctions about a decade ago.that,"the continued disempowerment of the middle class will add to the economic erosion that the country is set to experience due to a lack of infrastructure investments." Yet to lift sanctions now would cause an uproar because it would also put more resources into the hands of a hated regime.
Sanctions proponents suggest that these penalties will encourage a change in regime policies if not a change in regimes themselves. But the link between sanctions and regime change is tenuous and sanctions often seem to prolong the worst dictatorships, not overturn them.
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