UN imposes 'snapback' sanctions on a hungrier, poorer and extra anxious Iran : NPR

A domestically-built missile and banners showing portraits of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and armed forces commanders who were killed in an Israeli strike in June, are displayed in Baharestan Square, Tehran, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.

A domestically-built missile and banners displaying portraits of the Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, heart, and armed forces commanders who have been killed in an Israeli strike in June, are displayed in Baharestan Sq., Tehran, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, additional squeezing the Islamic Republic as its folks more and more discover themselves priced out of the meals they should survive and fearful about their futures.

The sanctions will once more freeze Iranian property overseas, halt arms offers with Tehran, and penalize any growth of Iran’s ballistic missile program, amongst different measures. It got here through a mechanism often known as “snapback,” included in Iran’s 2015 nuclear take care of world powers, and comes as Iran’s financial system already is reeling.

Iran’s rial foreign money sits at a document low, rising stress on meals costs and making day by day life that rather more difficult. That features meat, rice and different staples of the Iranian dinner desk.

In the meantime, folks fear a couple of new spherical of preventing between Iran and Israel — in addition to probably the USA — as missile websites struck in the course of the 12-day warfare in June now seem like being rebuilt.

Activists worry a rising wave of repression inside the Islamic Republic, which already has reportedly executed extra folks this 12 months than over the previous three a long time.

A woman sits in the al fresco dining area of a cafe at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) street, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025.

A lady sits within the al fresco eating space of a restaurant on the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) road, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025.

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