Global Health Challenges in Times of COVID-19 Webinar series

The geopolitics of the health effects of sanctions in Iran
March 18, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Join Zoom Meeting: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/92742039980?pwd=WDZNWjQzdlJiRVIxcDFDVUoyYm1LUT09

Meeting ID: 927 4203 9980

Password: 871943

Description

This webinar will address the health effects of sanctions on the people of Iran, emphasizing the years since the onset of the COVID crisis and the geopolitical context.

Iran is one of 21 countries currently subject to economic sanctions by Canada and one of 39 countries under US sanctions. For about three decades, Western countries have increasingly used economic sanctions as a foreign policy instrument. Deployed alone or in conjunction with military and/or diplomatic interventions, economic sanctions aim to achieve strategic political and policy goals, such as forcing changes in the behaviour of alleged wrongdoers.

Because sanctions are considered less violent than direct military assault, they are often supported by individuals on the liberal/left side of the political spectrum, or even involved in antiwar and anti-imperial struggles, who reluctantly accept the policy as a necessary evil. However, economic sanctions have a significant impact on human health, generally, albeit not only, on the health of vulnerable groups – women, children, the older, and the sicker. The webinar is generously sponsored by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. It is the last of a series showcasing global health challenges in times of COVID-19 in selected countries in the global South.

Speaker’s bio – Mohammad Marandi is an Iranian American academic and political analyst, Professor of English Literature, Orientalism and American Studies at the University of Tehran in Iran. Prof. Marandi has published widely on topics of his expertise and appeared regularly as a political and social commentator on international news networks such as PBS, RT, ABC, CGTN, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Press TV.

Recommended readings, viewings & sources of information

• Sanctions Kill https://sanctionskill.org/
  
  
• Prof. Marandi @ Middle Eastern Eye https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/seyed-mohammad-marandi
  
  
• BBC HardTalk: Marandi on Vienna Nuclear Talks (January 20, 2022).

Contact the organizer Prof. Claudia Chaufan ([log in to unmask]) for further information on the Webinar Series and Dr. Lisa Endersby ([log in to unmask]) for pedagogical support and advice on including the series as part of your course as an opportunity for experiential education and internationalization.

[log in to unmask]" id="x_Picture_x0020_1" style="width:2.0833in; height:.55in" width="200" height="53" border="0" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="/cgi-bin/wa?A3=2203&L=BHS&E=base64&P=41821216&B=--_004_YT4PR01MB991031543F4AD758F826601EAA0F9YT4PR01MB9910CANP_&T=image%2Fpng;%20name=%22image001.png%22&N=image001.png">