The United Nations’ contradictory and hypocritical imposition of sanctions on Iran and Israel demonstrates a massive lapse in applying international laws and statutes with consistency and fairness. Iran has faced a slew of sanctions in the last 20 years affecting their military and economy, while Israel has not faced any considerable or comparable sanctions, despite decades of avoiding nuclear weapons transparency and damning allegations of human rights abuses in both the Palestinian territory and Lebanon. The circumstances regarding the two Middle Eastern nations and their accused offenses are certainly different, but regardless, it prompts the question: Why has Iran faced…