Investigating the Legitimacy and Legality of Unilateral Sanctions of the United States from the Perspective of Universal Human Rights

In the legal arrangements after the UN Charter, the United Nations Security Council has been considered as the only legal authority that is allowed to resort to sanctions or coercive measures, despite the fact that the performance of this Council has been political and unfair in many cases, based on the seventh chapter of the Charter, the sanctions imposed by Article 41 aimed of maintaining international peace and security, they are considered collective and coercive in nature and are binding on all member states. The opposite of collective sanctions of the UN is unilateral sanctions by which, one government tries to force another government to change its policies. In response to the main question that what is the legal position and legitimacy of unilateral sanctions of the United States, this article, which was carried out with a descriptive analytical method, takes into account the hypothesis that the unilateral sanctions of the United States violates universal human rights, international humanitarian law, and the principles and objectives stated in the charter, the principle of equality of governments, the principle of non-interference, food security, the right to health and education, the right to development, the right to life and other fundamental human rights of a sanctioned country.