Iran Press/ America: "The United States has intensified its unilateral sanctions against some countries at the peak of the coronavirus, and this will go down in history as the world needs empathy, and in the face of COVID-19, some have not spared human lives by imposing unilateral, immoral and inhumane sanctions," said the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi.
Takht-Ravanchi added: "Pandemic diseases with high mortality rates have negative effects on the economic and social situation of the countries involved in the conflict, and by adding another layer to their existing problems, they complicate the situation."
Iran's representative in the UN General Assembly said: "Iran, as a country that has been affected by the coronavirus and at the same time has been the target of US sanctions, is well aware of how and to what extent these sanctions, by stonewalling against the import of medical equipment and medicine as well as undermining the capacity of target countries to counter the disease."
"US unilateral sanctions are actually targeting patients," the Iranian ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations concluded.
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