While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the …

should ? To answer these questions, the authors of How Sanctions Work highlight Iran, the most sanctioned country in the …, or to weaken its hold on power. But, after four decades, the case of Iran shows the opposite to be true: sanctions … strengthened the Iranian state, impoverished its population, increased state repression, and escalated Iran's military posture …

This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the … development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of … for Iran, using a weighted average of other comparable countries that mirror pre-sanction Iran, but did not experience …