Agreed Hossein. The punishment use of sanctions entrenches the parties into positions that become normal over time and are reinforced by the structures built around them. All are making their familiar place hard to remove. This could be the case in Russia, and we can guess that very little is planned regarding their removal.

Complacency sets in, especially if there is no immediate danger, as with Cuba and Venezuela. An urgency exists for an agreement with Iran and sanctions removed, but there is still no resolution.

Unlike bloody conflicts, sanctions are not VISUAL. And even carnage is treated with world indifference if there are few cameras to capture its horrors, such as in Tigray, Syria, and Yemen. Also, the effects of sanctions are not IMMEDIATE, and the links become stretched, intertwined with other factors, and "open to interpretation."

Journalists have an enormous role in getting and spreading information about the costs of imposing and lingering, serving no purpose, sanctions. Likewise, the importance of writers and analysts such as you.

Repeating and repeating until a few more get it.

Many thanks. Important article.