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2025-12-23 20:10
By Sahar Dadjoo
Sanctions intended for nuclear pressure instead fuel human suffering in Iran: Stanford researcher
Dr. Ruth Gibson highlights gaps in UNSC Resolution 2231 that leave civilians without critical medical equipment
TEHRAN – In an exclusive interview with Tehran Times, Ruth Gibson, a scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, examines how international sanctions have systematically weakened Iran’s public health system under the guise of political pressure.
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2025-12-22 15:58
How sanctions undermine Iran’s health system: Stanford health policy researcher explains
Despite claims that sanctions against Iran include humanitarian exemptions, the country’s health system continues to face severe and systemic disruption, says Dr. Ruth M. Gibson, a Stanford University health policy scholar specializing in the global health impacts of sanctions. In this interview, Gibson explains how legal ambiguity, financial restrictions, and over-compliance by banks and suppliers effectively block Iran’s access to essential medicines, medical equipment, and hospital supplies.
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2025-10-03 19:59
By Sahar Dadjoo
EXCLUSIVE: Islamabad sees snapback sanctions as obstacle to dialogue, Pakistani scholar says
Dr. Qaiser Ahmed outlines Pakistan’s balancing act between East and West while preserving cooperation with Iran
TEHRAN – The reactivation of the snapback mechanism at the United Nations Security Council has once again placed Iran’s nuclear program at the center of global diplomatic tensions. Following the European trio’s move to reinstate sanctions, Tehran has sharply criticized the decision, while countries across the region are weighing the implications for stability, trade, and security.
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2025-09-29 15:05
PMO says snapback sanctions fail to disrupt port, shipping operations
TEHRAN – The head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) said the activation of the “snapback” sanctions mechanism has not disrupted the country’s maritime operations, with ports continuing to operate at full capacity.
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2025-09-28 12:59
ICCIMA urges new outward-looking economic approach
TEHRAN – Iran’s economy must enter a new phase of outward orientation, with greater recognition of the private sector’s international role, Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Head Samad Hassanzadeh said on Sunday.
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2025-09-28 12:34
S. Korea says U.N.'s reimposition of sanctions on Iran to have limited impact on bilateral ties
TEHRAN -The South Korean foreign ministry said Sunday the United Nations' move to reinstate sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program is expected to have a limited impact on South Korea.
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2025-06-09 15:33
By Seyed Mehrdad Bani-Hashemi Kahangi
Sanctions and soul of a nation: Rethinking economic warfare on Iran
In the quiet corridors of Iranian hospitals, where children wait for medicine that never arrives, and in the crowded markets of southern Tehran, where inflation is rewriting the price of bread by the hour, one truth has become inescapable: the real cost of U.S. sanctions is not political—it is profoundly human.