Iran's Zarif asks world to defy US mass punishment.
Iran's Foreign Minister said that the US is not impeding the global fight against coronavirus and the world should defy Washington mass punishment against Iranian.
"Iranian people appreciate the growing global campaign of government & civil society leaders calling for lifting of illegal US sanctions," Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet on Monday.
"US is NOT listening, impeding the global fight against #COVID19. The ONLY remedy: DEFY U.S. mass punishment. MORAL & PRAGMATIC imperative," he added.
Iran has called on the United Nations to urge the US to temporarily lift sanctions, and China and Russia have called on the US to do so as well, Washington has remained obdurate in its "maximum pressure" campaign.
While the US administration claims there are no sanctions on medicine going to Iran, many banks and companies have refrained from taking part in any such ventures out of fear of getting caught up in US secondary sanctions.
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