On May 12, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with Mahdi Mohabirad, a tehran-based scholar of international law and the Director of the Organization for defending Victims of Violence.In this convo, Mohebirad and Cobban discussed (among other topics):<ul><li> The extent of the impact of the United States&apos; long-running sanctions on Iranian people and society</li><li>The ways in which Iran can have recourse to remedies under international law</li><li>The limitations on the effectiveness of existing international institutions, and</li><li>The responsibility of citizen organizations to work to reform this situation.</li></ul>This was latest episode in our continuing series on the Iran Crisis. Find the multimedia records of this episode and all its others at <a href='https://bit.ly/JWE-iran-crisis'>this Online Learning Hub</a> on our website. <a rel="payment" href="http://justworldeducational.org/donate/">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;On May 12, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with &lt;b&gt;Mahdi Mohabirad&lt;/b&gt;, a tehran-based scholar of international law and the Director of the Organization for defending Victims of Violence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this convo, Mohebirad and Cobban discussed (among other topics):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; The extent of the impact of the United States&amp;apos; long-running sanctions on Iranian people and society&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ways in which Iran can have recourse to remedies under international law&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The limitations on the effectiveness of existing international institutions, and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The responsibility of citizen organizations to work to reform this situation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was latest episode in our continuing series on the Iran Crisis. Find the multimedia records of this episode and all its others at &lt;a href='https://bit.ly/JWE-iran-crisis'&gt;this Online Learning Hub&lt;/a&gt; on our website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="http://justworldeducational.org/donate/"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

On May 12, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with Mahdi Mohabirad, a tehran-based scholar of international law and the Director of the Organization for defending Victims of Violence. In this convo, Mohebirad and Cobban discussed (among other topics):  The extent of the impact of the United States' long-running sanctions on Iranian people and societyThe ways in which Iran can have recourse to remedies under international lawThe limitations on the effectiveness of existing international...

The Iran Crisis #21: Mahdi Mohebirad on International Law, Sanctions, and Citizen Activism

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