Collective sanctions hurt and harm people “much more than the regime, as the state does all it can to transfer the pressure on to the shoulders of the society”. Maysam Behravesh, Iran expert
Yahoo! News cited Alizadeh’s criticism of Iran's political system for "hypocrisy", "lying", "injustice" and "flattery", and quoted her as writing on Instagram: "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran with whom they [the Iranian authorities] have been playing for years."
Although a large number of Iranian people are struggling against the conservative government, fighting for free speech and equal rights, many Iranians believe the media portrayal in the West is still unfair, as if the whole country is being painted with the same brush. He explained:“Tehran did have a surreptitious nuclear programme until 2003, stopped it after the US invasion of Iraq. It has not yet made a political decision to go for the bomb, according to the American intelligence community.”
“Another case is a strange insistence on the false idea that the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] provided Iran with a $150billion 'windfall', which again is factually wrong,” Behravesh said, clarifying on two points that “It was around $50-55billion and Iran’s own money that was unlocked for access and transfer.”
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