Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused ~564,258 deaths each year – more than five times the number of people killed annually in direct armed combat. This warning comes from a new report published in The Lancet, which contextualizes decades of data on how sanctions affect mortality.
“From a rights-based perspective, evidence that sanctions lead to losses in lives should be sufficient reason to advocate for the suspension of their use,” the study’s authors argue. But that is far from reality. Over the same decade, nearly a quarter of all of the world’s countries were affected by sanctions, driven primarily by a sharp increase in unilateral economic measures imposed by the United States and its European allies.
While Western sanctions “have the claimed aim to end wars, protect human rights, or promote democracy,” the report shows they do the very opposite. By restricting a country’s ability to import essential goods like food, medicine, and medical supplies, and by slashing public budgets, sanctions systematically undermine healthcare systems and other vital services.
You clearly love to create drama, it’s clear that it’s you who don’t read. I also answered all your wuestion, it’s you who didn’t answer mine.Where did we agree that the west should impose sanctions on iran?
About overthrowing iran regime, you don’t care about how it should be overthrow while i do i want zero western intervensions. If israel succesed in overthrowing the mullah it would be caos like in syria
Seeing that the sanctions comes from a political point rather than a moral stand point imposed by countries that themselves commited ton of war crimes that showed again and again only hurt the sanctionned countries population amd not the leaders is justifying western hypocrisy.
Besides western indepedent human right organizations exposing the abuse we should not intervene unless there is a genocide