Iran Press/Europe: Referring to the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people worldwide, Hamid Baeidinejad said: "In a letter to UK media, we requested them to urgently increase international awareness regarding the inhuman nature of US sanctions impeding Iran to mobilize all its resources to fight coronavirus."
"US must stop terrorizing Iranian people and countries should disregard sanctions."
Ever since quitting the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018, US President Donald Trump has been running what he refers to as a “maximum pressure” of sanctions against Tehran.
The American sanctions target both Iran and its international partners, including European countries that seek to engage in trade with the Islamic Republic.
So-called secondary sanctions target foreign companies that do business with Iran. Affected countries, including China, say those bans violate their sovereignty because their bilateral interactions with Iran are targeted by a third country, namely the US.
Coinciding with field-medical and research-medical efforts, Iran is moving forward in the fight against the virus despite cruel and illegal US sanctions.
The novel coronavirus, which causes a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province late last year. It has killed nearly 8,300 people globally, and infected over 200,000, according to the World Health Organization.
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