Originally Published in Madras Courier
Editorial Note
The architecture of subjugation was built by human decisions. What humans have built, humans can change.
In June 2019, an eight-year-old boy named Taha Shakouri was photographed playing in a corner of Mahak Children’s Hospital in Tehran, unaware that his doctors were running out of the chemotherapy medicine keeping his liver cancer at bay. When the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in May 2018 and reimposed sweeping sanctions on Iran, it severed Iran’s banking system from the international financial network.