Iran Press/Iran News: The Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education and Head of the Food and Drug Administration of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shanesaz went on to say that preventing the transportation of medicine and health-related items such as medicine and medical equipment has been one of the main axes of sanctions against the Iranian people, creating problems for the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
"As the COVID-19 spreads and US sanctions against Iran intensify, these problems have increased," Shanesaz said.
In separate letters to the UN Secretary-General, Director-General of the World Health Organization and President of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Saeed Namaki, Iran's Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education called on the international community to break silence toward cruel sanctions against the Iranian people.
In a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed the need to lift all US unilateral and illegal sanctions against Iran, saying despite the scientific capability of the Iranian health system, sanctions and US preconditions for preventing the sale of drugs. and medical equipment has seriously hampered efforts to combat the spread of coronavirus in Iran.
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