Iran urges world states to disregard US sanctions amid pandemic
Ghanbar Naderi
Press TV, Tehran
Iran has urged the world to disregard Washington’s sanctions on the country to help the Iranian people in their fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic.
In a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the sanctions are “literally” taking lives and have “drained the country’s economic resources”, impairing its ability to fight the outbreak.
Iranian officials say the continued imposition of sanctions on Iran is contrary to the spirit of humanitarianism.
Hundreds of thousands of trained foot soldiers, volunteers, public health workers and specialists have been dispatched to affected regions up and down the country to identify people with this new infectious disease.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered the US to lift the sanctions it has illegally re-imposed on humanitarian supplies to Iran.
The US claims it does not get in the way of food and medicine exports to Iran, but Tehran says Washington has been creating problems for a Swiss humanitarian channel launched to enable the transfer of commodities to Iran.
The virus first emerged in China and later reached other countries across the continents, prompting the World Health Organization to declare the disease as a pandemic.
Over the past weeks, calls have been growing on the world stage for the US to lift its illegal sanctions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Many governments say the sanctions regime had severely affected Iran’s healthcare system at a time when all countries need to join forces against the pandemic.
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