Sanctions Regime
The background of the Sanctions Regime against Iran, dates back to the sanctions were imposed by the United States in November 1979 after a group of radical students seized the American Embassy in Tehran and took the people inside hostage. The mentioned sanction is considered as the first imposed sanction to Islamic Republic of Iran. From that time up to now, some of the other countries regulated some sanction rules against Iran, in addition the UN and EU sanctions.
What is the sanction and why does impose?
Sanction Regime
In general, from the legal perspective, sanction means a threatened penalty for breaching a law or rule and/or official authorization or approval for an action. As it is clear by the meaning, the philosophy of the sanction’s imposition should be the obedience of the law or the international community rules by the country in the circumstances when the international community is interested to seek to the amicable solution in contradiction with the resorting to each country’s armed forces.
What are the authorities regarding sanctions impositions against Iran?
Although the first sanction against Iran imposed by the US, up to now the US should not be considered as the only country which imposed sanctions against Iran. In this regard, the Sanctions Regime against Iran consists of all UN, EU and US sanctions.
UN Sanctions
UN sanctions through Security Council (SC) began after the starting date of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s atomic program on March 8th, 2006. The mentioned sanctions imposed based on chapter 7 of the UN charter specifically Article 42 which is about the sanction’s imposition by considering the threat of peace of the international community. All the ratified resolutions by SC is binding for the member states of the UN charter.
EU Sanctions
Regarding the EU sanctions, all the provisions should be ratified by the Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers). The first sanction by the Council imposed on February 7th, 2007 regarding the technologies and facilities which could help Iran in missiles technology as well as the atomic program. After that in later years, the Council imposed other sanctions in some useful fields such as carriage by the air and sea, banking transactions, purchasing the oil and investment in oil and gas industries.
Other related sanctions imposed by the countries
As was mentioned before, the United States of America is not the merely country that imposed sanctions against Iran. Other countries such as the United Kingdom and Canada imposed some sanctions as well. All the mentioned sanctions were imposed by virtue of the SC sanctions regarding the atomic program. But the US sanctions enjoy the vast variety that should be discussed by the present paper.
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