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Iran Sanctions Updated April 6, 2021 Congressional Research Service RS20871 Congressional Research Service SUMMARY Iran Sanctions Successive Administrations and Congresses have used economic Sanctions to try to change Iran s behavior. Sanctions on Iran primarily secondary Sanctions on firms that conduct certain transactions with Iran have adversely affected Iran s economy but have arguably not, to date, altered Iran s pursuit of core strategic objectives including its support for regional armed factions and its development of missiles. Sanctions did contribute to Iran s decision to enter into a 2015 agreement that put limits on its nuclear program the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran and on Iran’s support for regional armed factions, its human rights abuses, and on its efforts to acquire missile and advanced conventional weapons technology. U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the JCPOA, kept in place an existing ban on its importation or exportation of arms (which expired on October 18,
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