Over the earlier months given that COVID-19 arrived in our nation… no person acquired right here to our help: Hassan Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani castigated Iran’s friends on Saturday for not standing as a lot because the US and ignoring U.S. sanctions all through the coronavirus pandemic.
Iran, with over 380,000 registered circumstances and over 22,000 deaths from coronavirus, is among the many worldwide places worst hit by the pandemic inside the Heart East.
“Over the earlier months given that coronavirus arrived in our nation… no person acquired right here to our help,” President Rouhani acknowledged in remarks broadcast keep on state television.
If the US “had a little bit little bit of humanity and thoughts”, he acknowledged, it would have supplied to “increase the sanctions for a yr because of the coronavirus”.
Nevertheless the US “is manner further heartless and evil than these points,” he added. As an alternative, it “imposed new sanctions and pressures on us over these earlier seven months of coronavirus”.
On the same time, “Not a single nice nation instructed us that on this time of coronavirus and hardship and for the sake of humanity ‘we’re going to stand as a lot as America'” and do enterprise with Iran no matter threats of U.S. retaliation, President Rouhani acknowledged.
In March, Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected a U.S. present to help Iran in its fight in direction of the pandemic, and denounced U.S. leaders as “charlatans and liars”.
The sanctions are part of a U.S. effort to slash Iranian revenues after President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Meals, medicine and completely different humanitarian gives are exempt from the sanctions nonetheless the shopping for and promoting bans have deterred quite a lot of abroad banks from doing enterprise with Iran, along with financing humanitarian provides, horrifying shortages of some medicine.
