Iran has been hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak, and the United States has faced pressure to ease sanctions to help the nation manage the pandemic. Penn Today spoke with Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, a doctoral candidate in Penn’s History Department, to get his take on the matter. Movahedi-Lankarani’s dissertation, “The Domain of Gas: Energy Technology and the Environment in Modern Iran,” focuses on the history of technology and natural gas in Iran.