Document Type : Article
Authors
1 Professor of Public Law, Department of Public law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Phd. Researcher, Department of Public law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
From 1980 to the end of 2022 the imposition of sanctions has been a significant part of the policy of the U.S. towards the I.R. of Iran. In the late 1990s the U.S. approach changed from imposing comprehensive sanctions to targeted sanctions; US imposed sanctions specifically against persons including entities, individuals, vessels, and aircrafts. A significant number of these Iranian and non-Iranian persons do not know how to be delisted from U.S.’ sanctions list or legally challenge the sanctions. In order to answer to this legal question, the legal basis of the U.S. unilateral sanctions regime, the regime of sanctions against persons affiliated to the I.R. of Iran and, statistics of sanctioned persons is reviewed. In the end, after examining the administrative and judicial requirements and structure of the U.S. legal system, the researcher comes to the conclusion that the aforementioned persons, if certain conditions are met, may resort to the U.S. domestic administrative and judicial capacities to successfully challenge the sanctions. However, despite the existence of successful examples in this field, most of the efforts are not successful due to the compliance by administrative and judicial institutions with the U.S. foreign policy.
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