Voice and Accountability - Governance score_

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1. ··1928Capitulations abolishedCorrelationExpected causation

   Iran unilaterally ends the 19th-century capitulations regime under which foreign nationals held extraterritorial legal immunity from Iranian courts, asserting full Iranian judicial sovereignty over foreign nationals.

   Why this link: Ending extraterritorial legal immunity for foreign nationals was a foundational assertion of judicial sovereignty, part of the broader legal-modernization program later loosely reflected in rule-of-law governance scoring.

   Caveat: No continuous rule-of-law measure exists for the intervening seven decades (WGI data begins only in 1996); link is illustrative context only.

   Lag: Not measurableSource: Encyclopaedia Iranica (Commerce vii. In the Pahlavi and post-Pahlavi periods)