In January 2026, Iran experienced significant protests triggered by economic turmoil worsened by international sanctions.

United Nations: A raft of UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, lifted under a landmark 2015 deal, went back into force late Saturday. The sanctions were reimposed because the "E3" European ...

Ten years after wide-ranging UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme were lifted under a landmark deal with world powers, the economic measures are likely to be reimposed Saturday evening. The ...

A slow-burning economic crisis in Iran has reached a tipping point after a slump in the national currency to a record low made even basic goods unaffordable for much of the population. Shopkeepers and ...

Ongoing efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the construction and demolition of international trade barriers, the reassimilation of Syria into the global economy and other significant geopolitical ...

Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has lived and worked in Iran, has ...

The U.S. is waging a silent war on humanity in the pursuit of Washington, D.C.'s geopolitical priorities. Economic sanctions, largely imposed by the U.S. government, punish and coerce nations by ...

OANDA examines how Western sanctions against Russia failed to achieve total economic collapse, instead creating a permanent geopolitical financial split, accelerating global de-dollarization, and ...

Economic leverage has become an increasingly important tool of statecraft for great powers in the 21st century. China is no exception. In recent years, Beijing has significantly expanded the ways it ...

Both the Biden and the Trump administrations have been expanding U.S. export controls (particularly regarding China) and promulgating new and comprehensive economic sanctions. To reflect the ...

Britain, France and Germany have threatened to trigger a "snapback mechanism" to reintroduce UN sanctions over Tehran's atomic programme that were lifted under a now moribund 2015 Iran nuclear deal.