خلاصة:
Unbalanced Multilateralism should be considered as a part of the West World’s strategic policy to confine Iran’s economic and international capabilities. Indications of unbalanced multilateralism in Iran’s economic sanction policymaking are focused on executive mechanisms and America and EU’s legislative bodies. Although America and EU have relatively identical strategic objectives toward Islamic Republic of Iran، Iran’s economic sanction pattern has an unbalanced nature. The most severe sanctions were in 2011، which were called “crippling sanctions”. The crippling sanctions mainly targeted financial system of Islamic Republic of Iran and imposed various restrictions on Iran’s economic structure. Restrictions on selling oil to other countries and the ones on receiving financial sources caused by economic transactions should be considered as indications of Iran’s economic sanction. Trends to reduce Iran’s economic sanctions have started since 24 November 2013 and they are subject to the measures that control strategic، technical and industrial capabilities of Iran within nuclear field. Although some sanctions were reduced within this period، restricting trends of Iran’s capabilities in the unbalanced multilateralism atmosphere of the great powers have been continued. The process of imposing restriction and reducing reduction of some sanctions in a phased manner show that America، EU and Russia have taken advantage of unbalanced multilateralism strategy toward Iran.
ملخص الجهاز:
Imbalanced Multilateralism in Iran’s Economic Sanctions Policy Abbas Moslehi Nejad¹ Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran (Received: 2014/03/23 – Approved: 2015/10/09) Abstract Imbalanced multilateralism, as part of the West’s strategic policy to limit Iran’s economic and international capabilities in Iran’s economic sanctions policy, focuses on the executive mechanisms and legislative institutions of the United States and the European Union.
Although the United States and the European Union have relatively similar strategic goals in dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the nature of Iran’s economic sanctions pattern is imbalanced.
Therefore, economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran should be considered one of the tools of coercive diplomacy of the United States of America to persuade countries that have become dependent on the global economy but are unwilling to accept the rules related to the global economy and politics (Gary et al.
Since the continuation of sanctions creates strategic risks and phased threats to the structure and processes of the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the evaluation of the policymaking mechanisms of Iran’s economic sanctions is carried out based on structural and institutional indicators.
(Freedman, 2001: 15) Many companies and global economic institutions, due to the possibility of control by the United States and the global economy over their political and structural position, cooperate with America’s global policy in the process of economic sanctions against Iran.
Strategic Control in Iran’s Economic Sanctions Policy The United States is trying to provide the necessary grounds for reducing the structural capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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