The Study on the Nature and Purposes of United Nation Sanctions

The main purposes of United Nation is to maintain international peace and security. To gain this purposes, united nation uses a wide variety of instruments and techniques. One of these techniques is the use of international sanctions regimes. According to the charter, the use of sanction under specific circumstances is legal and acceptable. The way of sanctions is pointed in chapter 7 article 41. The goal of imposing sanctions is to change behavior of targeted states. Although sanction as an instrument according charter and international law is regarded as alegitimate phenomenon, any imposition of this instrument against wrongdoer members should be appropriate with principle of international law, human right, and international humanitarian rights. Finally, although sanction has been recognized according to charter, experiences has shown that that this instrument has been used in the context of international politics and great power interests, as we see this kind of implosion of security council’s sanctions in case of Iran peaceful nuclear activities.