Iran Press/Iran news: “Preventing foreign aid from entering the country under these most difficult conditions is an unprecedented crime,” President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday in a meeting with cabinet ministers, senior managers and members of the parliament.
Pointing to the devastating floods, which have affected many people across the country in the past two weeks, he said that foreign citizens and Iranian nationals living abroad cannot direct money to flood-stricken people through Iranian Red Crescent Society because the illegal US sanctions prevent the Red Crescent organization from receiving any funds.
According to a report from President Rouhani's official website, president.ir, Rouhani went on to say that the US and those who are trying to take advantage of the harsh situation to reach their own political objectives have committed 'an unprecedented crime'.
Hassan Rouhani meeting with ministers executive managers and members of parliament (Majlis) on April 3
United States has frozen the accounts of the Iranian Red Crescent Society as part of its cruel sanctions against the Iranian people, thus preventing other countries from sending humanitarian aid to people in Iran’s flood-stricken regions.
“Given that the accounts of the Iranian Red Crescent have been blocked [due to US sanctions], no foreign citizen or Iranian national living abroad is able to send any relief aid to flood-hit people,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghassemi told IRNA on Tuesday.
On Monday, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US is waging economic terrorism against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are hampering relief efforts targeting flood-stricken people across the country.
At least 62 people have been killed in the past two weeks in floods and extreme weather conditions in various Iranian provinces, from north to south, following the heaviest downpours in the country in living memory.
Iran has announced a state of emergency in several provinces threatened by flooding and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the affected provinces, where dozens of villages have been evacuated already. 101/211
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