Once the narrative is locked in, the next step is usually sanctions, marketed to Americans as a humane alternative to war. Human Rights Watch has documented how “maximum pressure” sanctions and financial restrictions undermined access to essential medicines and threatened Iranians’ right to health, despite nominal humanitarian exemptions. The United Nations has also been unusually explicit that sanctions’ human impact is often amplified by overcompliance – companies and financial institutions refusing lawful transactions out of fear. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that unilateral sanctions and overcompliance pose a serious threat to human rights in Iran, and U.N. experts later highlighted cases where overcompliance affected access to life-saving medicine. A peace and human rights advocate, she writes to challenge interventionism and promote diplomacy.