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

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 society
• The ways in which Iran can have recourse to remedies under international law
• The limitations on the effectiveness of existing international institutions, and
• The responsibility of citizen organizations to work to reform this situation.

This was latest episode in our continuing series on the Iran Crisis. Find the multimedia records of this episode and all its others at this Online Learning Hub on our website.

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