Iran's friends should have defied U.S. sanctions

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani bemoaned Iran’s pals on Saturday for no longer standing up to the United States and breaking crippling sanctions for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.

He additionally stated that if the United States had a "bit of humanity or brain," it would have lifted sanctions on Iran for the period of the fitness crisis.

Iran, with over 380,000 registered cases and over 22,000 deaths from the coronavirus, is one of the nations worst-hit by using the pandemic in the Middle East.

"Over the previous months because the coronavirus arrived in our country... no one came to our help," Rouhani stated in remarks broadcast stay on Iranian kingdom television.

If the United States "had a bit of humanity and brain," he said, it would have presented to "lift the sanctions for a 12 months due to the fact of the coronavirus."

But the United States “is a ways greater heartless and evil than these things," he added.

Instead, it "imposed new sanctions and pressures on us over these previous seven months of coronavirus," Rouhani said.

At the equal time, he said, “not a single pleasant country informed us that in this time of coronavirus and problem and for the sake of humanity ‘we will stand up to America'" and do enterprise with Iran in spite of threats of U.S. retaliation.

The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on whoever conducts enterprise with Iran.

The sanctions are section of the U.S. effort to reduce Iranian revenues after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. 

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani bemoaned Iran’s pals on Saturday for no longer standing up to the United States and breaking crippling sanctions for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.

He additionally stated that if the United States had a "bit of humanity or brain," it would have lifted sanctions on Iran for the period of the fitness crisis.

Iran, with over 380,000 registered cases and over 22,000 deaths from the coronavirus, is one of the nations worst-hit by using the pandemic in the Middle East.

"Over the previous months because the coronavirus arrived in our country... no one came to our help," Rouhani stated in remarks broadcast stay on Iranian kingdom television.

If the United States "had a bit of humanity and brain," he said, it would have presented to "lift the sanctions for a 12 months due to the fact of the coronavirus."

But the United States “is a ways greater heartless and evil than these things," he added.

Instead, it "imposed new sanctions and pressures on us over these previous seven months of coronavirus," Rouhani said.

At the equal time, he said, “not a single pleasant country informed us that in this time of coronavirus and problem and for the sake of humanity ‘we will stand up to America'" and do enterprise with Iran in spite of threats of U.S. retaliation.

The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on whoever conducts enterprise with Iran.

The sanctions are section of the U.S. effort to reduce Iranian revenues after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. 

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani bemoaned Iran’s pals on Saturday for no longer standing up to the United States and breaking crippling sanctions for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.

He additionally stated that if the United States had a "bit of humanity or brain," it would have lifted sanctions on Iran for the period of the fitness crisis.

Iran, with over 380,000 registered cases and over 22,000 deaths from the coronavirus, is one of the nations worst-hit by using the pandemic in the Middle East.

"Over the previous months because the coronavirus arrived in our country... no one came to our help," Rouhani stated in remarks broadcast stay on Iranian kingdom television.

If the United States "had a bit of humanity and brain," he said, it would have presented to "lift the sanctions for a 12 months due to the fact of the coronavirus."

But the United States “is a ways greater heartless and evil than these things," he added.

Instead, it "imposed new sanctions and pressures on us over these previous seven months of coronavirus," Rouhani said.

At the equal time, he said, “not a single pleasant country informed us that in this time of coronavirus and problem and for the sake of humanity ‘we will stand up to America'" and do enterprise with Iran in spite of threats of U.S. retaliation.

The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on whoever conducts enterprise with Iran.

The sanctions are section of the U.S. effort to reduce Iranian revenues after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.