Join investigative journalist Alexandra Reeves as she exposes how international sanctions devastate innocent lives. Through decades of frontline reporting from Tehran to Damascus, she reveals how mothers, teachers, and aid workers become collateral damage when systems designed to punish regimes trap ordinary people in bureaucratic nightmares.

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Host Alexandra Reeves examines how banks systematically reject legal transactions from countries like Somalia and Syria due to massive compliance fines. The episode explores how this "overcompliance" devastates humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, and remittances while increasing the risks banks claim to prevent.

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Host Alexandra Reeves examines how UN, US, and EU sanctions blacklists financially destroy innocent individuals without trial or evidence. She explores automated screening systems, loose criteria, and absent due process that trap ordinary people in Kafkaesque bureaucracies freezing assets indefinitely while genuine targets adapt. A disturbing look at administrative punishment without accountability.

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Alexandra Reeves examines how economic sanctions kill over 564,000 people annually, mostly children, while rarely achieving regime change. Through cases from Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan, she exposes how "humanitarian exemptions" fail in practice, leaving authoritarian leaders unscathed.

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