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in nov 29th teen hundreds of thousands of people spontaneously took to the streets in iran sanaa just cities men and women blocks traffic and stram pulled on portrays of the country's leaders. the crowds were upset about a huge increase in gasoline prices following months of fuel rationing. since 2018 iran has been hit hard by new u.s. economic sanctions on the government has taken a hard line against the protests. after the 1st demonstrations the blokes internet access nationwide for several days to keep people from. posting reports about the protests several 100 people were killed

in the clashes and at least 7000 were arrested. i iran's leaders blamed the demonstrations on its enemies. i mean. this year of high technology. and i have just read the book. and as you've been seeing. fic i don't get the girl in force i bet if you pay those are the. you know having. that i see the matter of doom. no. the u.s. has applied maximum economic and political pressure on iran to try to get the country's leaders to approve a new agreement on the nuclear program. many western experts see iran as

a threat to political stability in the middle east iran has staged provocations in the persian gulf and its allies are playing an active role in conflicts in syria yemen and iraq. but the sanctions really having any impact on iran's foreign and domestic policy some western experts believe they have actually helps to keep the country's islamic government in power but what is clear is the devastating impact they have hands on ordinary iranians. at 1st glance the sanctions appear to have had little effect on the capital tehran . but a closer look shows that these measures have hit the middle and lower classes hard

inflation and unemployment are high. lost her job at a factory cheering the 1st wave of u.s. sanctions in 2010 she's a single parent and now works as a seamstress every day life is hard. to sanctions make our lives really difficult every day. we can barely make ends meet. there's a lot less work right now compared to 3 or 4 years ago. over the. because we used to get orders from everywhere the business is very slow right now so the work shop often has to shut down. because towns like this anymore or because we don't earn enough money to pay the rent or tuition fees for our children or medical care. callum and others at that

cotton into what i suffer from back pain and i shouldn't be working. but i have to so that i can earn at least a little money from this job as i'm getting an us. support herself and her son on the equivalent of just 60 euros a month. i'm going to be mothers have everything is very expensive and if i want to buy rice i have to ask a charity organization for help. i don't even have enough money to buy a simple bag of rice. is the same with beans or lentils i can't afford to buy the 1000000 island and. another yeah bison cheese now and then. it used to cost a $1000.00 to

a man then for the other today it's $10000.00. dollars for they were on a further. to the virgin and forget about me it's just too expensive. for the person who can you please scan everything slowly i can't spend more than 100000 so. what's the total $54000.00. there are plenty of goods in the shops but because of soaring inflation fueled by the sanctions most people can't afford to buy them the government provide small cash subsidies to some people. please help me with this will you thanks. akram

17 year old son loves to play soccer but he had to quit so he could take part time jobs to pay his school face. was. only for your loss over it's hard for young people to find work especially if you've got a college degree a lot of those people are unemployed and the politicians have to do something so that we don't end up like that. because. you know what happens in. the west is trying to get us to take to the streets to protest against down government they want us to believe that the state is trying to keep us down and doesn't care about us they want us to rebel against the government. and push on with their plans haven't worked and if we stick together they never will. that.

was a. government sponsored propaganda praises the country's economic independence despite western sanctions. for 4 decades iran's conservative islamic government has adopted policies that have isolated the country and raise tensions with the united states. tatty in the hall between yes the sanctions have had an impact but we can deal with it should we share a border with 15 countries you can always get around an embargo. schick

us that there are cracks in the wall of sanctions the u.s. is gradually losing international support. we'll just continue to focus on our domestic production capability. since ayatollah ruhollah khomeini came to power in 1979 the us has imposed sanctions on iran several times the 1st of these measures was ordered by president jimmy carter after university students seized the u.s. embassy in november 1979 and held 52 diplomats and civilian workers hostage. who the united. will you the hostages were held for

444 days until january 981 relations between iran's new government and the united states could not have got off to a worst start. the u.s. soon froze about $12000000000.00 in iranian assets and american sanctions made it difficult for iran to buy food spare parts and medical products overseas in 1905 president clinton impose new sanctions and these were a new job by the bush administration. washington accused iran of using the revolutionary guard corps to promote terrorism in the middle east the u.s. said the guard supplied weapons to and training for hezbollah militants in lebanon

and various palestinian resistance movements. president george w. bush was also concerned about iran's alleged efforts to build nuclear weapons. the united states of america will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons. in 2000 to push described iran as part of an international axis of evil and 2010 president barack obama announced new sanctions as iran continued to defy international demands to change course on its nuclear program similar calls came from the european union and the u.n. security council. but iran's new president mahmoud ahmadinejad's promise that the country would push ahead with its nuclear program. during the bush administration and certainly during the obama administration sanctions were intended to be leverage for diplomatic success that was the point that you were

going to apply pressure so that you could take it away as part of a negotiated agreement to deal with the nuclear issue obama would not have been sad if the regime and your transformed it's you know a true democracy emerging inside of iran i think would be something that would be appreciated by countries around the world but obama explicitly said that iran does government is iran's government and that you know we respect the sovereignty of the islamic republic of iran so he was not looking to change the regime in iran. washington's new efforts to bring iran to the negotiating table page 2015 after several years of talks iran agreed to strict conditions and transparency controls on its nuclear program in return for an easing of international sanctions the 5 permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany played a key role in the negotiations. this nuclear deal meets the national

security interests of the united states and our allies it prevents the most serious threat iran obtaining a nuclear weapon which would only make. the other problems that may cause even worse. that's why this deal makes our country and the world safer and more secure obama looked at the middle east as a region that had always complicated u.s. foreign policies and he was looking to try and find a way of getting us out of the middle east quagmire that he saw it with whether it's with iraq or whether it's with afghanistan or the broader regional conflict and i think he thought that trying to get a resolution of the nuclear issue and other regional issues with iran would be one step towards doing that it didn't mean that he thought that that would transform the middle east or that he was trying to handle iran control of the middle east as some of his opponents have said but i think obama believes that

a nuclear agreement would be one of the 1st steps towards a different u.s. relationship and u.s. set of interests in the middle east than what it had been over the course last 20 or 30 years. you know what i mean the iranians never said that they'd change their policies toward syria iraq and yemen after they'd signed the agreement that's not what the trees he was a bounty and you know the agreement was not perfect but it did create conditions that would depending on which close you look at it that prevent iran from using you clip the military purposes for the next 1015 or 20 is who is under the supervision of the international atomic energy agency. suitable cool. nobody will get all they want we didn't get all we wanted the united states didn't get what they wanted french germany britain even china russia didn't get to understand the nature of this type of negotiations i wouldn't accuse anybody

of being soft it's just a process of negotiation. vienna agree. he meant to gave new hope to the people of iran who looked forward to an easing of sanctions. and it was a success for iran's new president hassan rouhani and foreign minister mohammed sorry. to kill be clogged it will do it was a victory for the moderates and it had the support of the supreme leader. but that support was calculated so to speak and it was not comprehensive.