Iran Press/ Europe: Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch said on Saturday that the number of companies will increase in due course. She did not mention the names of the companies.
Ineichen-Fleisch referred to the outbreak of Coronavirus in Iran and countering it, saying "If we can get support there and export [to Iran], we can have a good partnership".
The US claims that this financial channel has been created and implemented to exchange agricultural and pharmaceutical goods with Iran through Switzerland.
"If the US had good intentions, they would not have publicized through the media. This suggests they are after propaganda. The US government is also hindering the very healthcare aid channel set up by Switzerland, despite their claims to the contrary," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said.
The Chairman of Iran's Central Bank (CBI) Abolnasser Hemati also said: "The US government seems to have issued necessary exemptions for the use of part of Iran's foreign exchange resources to secure imports of basic commodities and drugs".
"So far, the US government has illegally blocked the Central Bank's resources by pressuring other countries," he noted elsewhere on his Instagram page.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Java Zarif in a message in his twitter account said US president Donald Trump is maliciously tightening US' illegal sanctions with the aim of draining Iran's resources needed in the fight against COVID-19, while our citizens are dying from it.
"The world can no longer be silent as US Economic Terrorism is supplanted by its Medical Terrorism," Zarif wrote.
According to the latest figures, 5,823 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Iran, of whom 145 have died.
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