Is the Price Worth It?

There's an elephant in the room here about casualties. What was the death toll of the sanctions? And perhaps the figure that's thrown been thrown around the most is thi figure of 500 thousand raki children, just children, who died as a result of the sanctions. This has been challenged. There's one paper from the london school of economics that suggests that,. you know, the araki government ajuce the figures by messing with the data or strong arming people on the ground for the purpose of trying to lift the sanctions.