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I think it's a trap to think of countries which haven't been allowed to thrive by basically the entire west as failing on values that they virtually never think about. Is it really that surprising that sanctions lead to regression or stagnation on civil rights of minority groups? They have been under sanctions since 1979. In 1979 how did our LGBTQ+ representation look?
I'll be the first to accept that Iran, just like Cuba and any other country under long term sanctions from the US for refusing to kowtow to US demands, is essentially crippled from the start and unable to function as well as they could have without that ongoing interference. However, that doesn't negate things that they've done on their own, like harsh repression of protests or that lady who was sentenced to being whipped for singing a song without wearing a hijab the other day.
I'm basically saying that my view of him is like my view of whoever wound up being Putin's handpicked successor would be. I find them suspect by virtue of passing the screening process to even wind up in that position to begin with, and that will only change if they start taking actions that are at odds with their predecessors' once in power. If his other positions turn out to be even half as good as his stance against Israel and the US in the current war on Iran has been, I will be happy to realize that my suspicions were unfounded. At the same time, just because they're in the right on this specific topic doesn't mean they are flawless in other aspects. Like, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church was surprisingly progressive for civil rights for African Americans for a white guy in Kansas in the 1960s, but you won't catch me singing Fred Phelps' praises in light of all the other heinous stuff he's done in his life.
US-style Liberals were the ones parroting the whole "Israel is pro-LGBTQ+" propaganda as they mass murdered Palestinians, as if the Israeli bombs and bullets magically avoided killing gender orientation minority members.
Being an equal opportunity mass murder isn't the great thing these people try to portray it as.
And, yeah, this also applies to the US which in the last couple of decades has murdered hundreds of thousands in the Middle East.
Guess if one doesn't count foreign lives as worth the same as the lives of one's countrymem, one can actually deceive oneself into thinking that the pile of bones on top of which one's "liberal" regime sits is a moral high ground.
How do sanctions prevent civil rights? That's kind of a nonsense connection, do you have any actual direct evidence of such a connection and I'm pretty sure it's in this case pretty much totally related to the regressive theocratic regime. Sanctions aren't forcing this regressive theocratic discrimination, the regressive theocratic culture is. Admittedly sanctions created conditions for them to take power but they were already there already discriminating to the best of their power.
There are double usage sanctions on Iran which affect severly iranians lives
Yes and that obviously directly causes a violent regressive patriarchal theocratic dictatorship, thanks for explaining! Give your fuckin balls a tug.
Because the dictatorship thrives when its people are poorer, people with no food and shelter are just going to shut the fuck up and do what the dictator says to survive.
Well that's an incredibly stupid response that has fuck all to do with the conversation.
That's how sanctions prevent civil liberties.
No it isn't, that's some sort of dumb shit rest of the fucking owl without ever actually addressing in any way how sanctions directly result in violent regressive theocratic patriarchal dictatorships.