“When it comes to evaluating sanctions policy, it can be difficult to determine which harms are truly unintended. In a new case study on Iran sanctions published today by the Sanctions and Security Research Project, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj details how skyrocketing inflation is an intended economic impact of U.S. sanctions in countries like Iran and argue that the humanitarian dimensions of such economic impacts are rarely accounted for by policymakers.”