International Quarterly of Foreign Relations

International Quarterly of Foreign Relations

The Capitalist Origin of Human Rights Pressures on Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohamad Bagher Heshmat Zadeh 1
Vahid Ghorbani 2
1 Associate Professor at Shahid Beheshti University
2 Ph.D. Candidate of International Relations at Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
Over past four decades, Islamic Republic of Iran has been subjected to various pressures to full compliance with the norms of universal human rights. The research problem in this article is study based on Neo-Gramscianism from capitalist origin of human rights pressures on Islamic Republic of Iran and transformation of the means of pressure on the country. The results show that human rights play a role of intellectual and moral leadership in global capitalism. In this way, with continuity of capitalist relations after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, relative independence of the political, cultural and legal superstructure allows it to oppose and disregard the global human rights regime. With developments in global capitalist system, the pressures on Iran have taken an economic form and capitalist hegemony with two means of force (impose and implementation of effective sanctions by governments and global and regional organizations) and satisfaction (supportive network measures to increase business risk, bargaining with companies to abandon business, and establish a variety of mechanisms for Human Rights Impact Assessment on international economic cooperation with Iran) persuade the country to abide by global human rights.
Keywords
Human Rights Pressures
Global Capitalism
Islamic Republic of Iran
Neo-Gramscianism
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