Virus-hit Iran urges IMF to approve its loan request
Bourse and Bazaar | Amir Havasi: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the InternationalMonetary Fund on Wednesday to give the sanctions-hit country a…
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US insisting on sanctions drives world toward humanitarian disaster
IRNA – Iran’s ambassador to Russia wrote in a Twitter message on Wednesday that the insistence of the United States on sanctions…
Sen. Chris Murphy doubles down on calls to provide relief to Iran
Jewish Insider – Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) discussed his recent letter to the Trump administration, which called for the easing of sanctions…
US to continue with economic sanctions on Iran despite epidemic: Pompeo
Press TV – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington will continue with its economic sanctions against Iran as part of…
What US sanctions mean for Iran’s coronavirus fight
Bloomberg | Golnar Motevalli: Since Iran emerged as the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the Middle East, its leaders have called…
We don’t need charity from Trump: Zarif
MNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called for the US to stop sanctions on Iran, including oil sanctions. In a…
Russian diplomat slams US reluctance to ease Iranian sanctions amid coronavirus
TASS – The United States demonstrates a non-pragmatic approach when it refuses to ease sanctions against Iran amid the novel coronavirus pandemic,…
Former world officials call on US to ease Iran sanctions to fight Covid-19
The Guardian – Group of former diplomats and ministers says shifting rules on medical trade could save hundreds of thousands of lives…
US bans should not block humanitarian aid to Iran: EU’s Borrell
Tasnim – European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said the US sanctions against Iran should not prevent the delivery of humanitarian…
Rouhani: Friendly countries must pressure US to lift Iran sanctions amid pandemic
Press TV – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says friendly countries should exert pressure on the United States to lift its “cruel and…
This coronavirus crisis is the time to ease sanctions on Iran
The New York Times – Iran is in terrible shape. It is among the countries worst hit by the coronavirus — more…
Human Rights Watch blasts US refusal to lift Iran sanctions amid coronavirus
Press TV – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has strongly criticized the United States for its refusal to lift sanctions on Iran amid the…
Pakistani Speaker calls for lifting of anti-Iran sanctions
IRNA — Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly Asad Qaiser on Monday called for removal of US sanctions on Iran. In a letter…
Iran urges US to stop impeding coronavirus aid
Tasnim – Iranian people do not need any assistance from the US amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, but expect Washington to…
The world needs to cooperate against the coronavirus—so lift sanctions on Iran
The National Interest | Assal Rad: At the start of 2020 much of the world anxiously watched as open confrontation between the…
‘Profound lack of human decency’: Oliver Stone tears into US govt over Iran & Venezuela sanctions amid Covid-19 crisis
RT – The United States government has revealed its contempt for human compassion and global solidarity by refusing to lift draconian sanctions…
Caricatures on corona and sanctions in Iran
Iran Review – The US, despite its proclamation, is deceiving the global public opinion and has imposed sanctions purposefully and in a…
Punishing sanctions against Iran are turning the coronavirus pandemic into a massacre
Euronews | Massoud Shadjareh: Coronavirus is a crisis. In Iran, it’s a massacre – because of Trump’s sanctions. Even before COVID-19, these…
US is killing Iranians and the world is complicit
Tehran Times | Syed Zafar Mehdi: A visibly sick and exhausted medic continued to see patients in her small hospital cubicle, writing…
Trump’s sanctions are losing their bite
Bloomberg | James Gibney: In his three years in office, President Donald Trump has placed more people under sanctions than he has…
The quiet and lethal wars against Iran
Iran Review | Ted Snider: Some wars are fought with bombs and bullets. These are the wars in Syria and Iraq, in…
Trump’s demands of Iran show moral bankruptcy of US under him: Scholar
Press TV – Donald Trump’s demand that Iran grovel before him and plead for aid shows the moral bankruptcy of the United…
How Trump sanctions on Iran will worsen the pandemic
The New York Times | Narges Bajoghli and Mahsa Rouhi: Tehran doesn’t have the resources to enforce quarantines and take other measures…
EU urges suspension of US sanctions on Iran
Tehran Times – Foreign ministers of the European Union have urged suspension of the United States’ sanctions against countries, including Iran, in…
Sanctions are crippling Iran’s fight against coronavirus
The Guardian | Pirouz Hanachi: As mayor of Tehran I have seen lives lost as a result of medical shortages. This is…
Iran battles coronavirus amid dramatic slump in oil income
Al-Monitor – Iran’s vice president for economic affairs lamented the free fall of the country’s oil revenue. Mohammad Nahavandian told Iranian state…
Biden urges Iran sanctions relief over virus
AFP – Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden called Thursday for the United States to ease sanctions on Iran to reduce suffering as…
Can Iran’s president turn around its economy?
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: While the Iranian government is busy managing the public health fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, there are increasing…
US sanctions hindering Iran’s fight against coronavirus outbreak: MP
Tehran Times – An Iranian parliamentarian wrote on her official Twitter account on Saturday that the U.S. economic terrorism and illegal sanctions…
Envoy urges EU to join global call for ending sanctions amid coronavirus
MNA – Iranian ambassador to Brussels Gholamhossein Dehghani, in a letter to EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called on the…
US sidestepped OWN SANCTIONS against Russia to save American lives from Covid-19… If only it cared as much about Iranian lives
TASS | Scott Ritter: When it comes to saving American lives, sanctions are not an obstacle to the provision of life-saving medical…
G77, China urge end to unilateral sanctions amid coronavirus pandemic
Press TV – The Group of 77 (G-77) and China have called for an end to unilateral coercive economic measures against developing…
Envoy: No one fooled by disinformation
IRNA – Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi in a message referred to the US Administration’s limitless allegations…
US lost historic chance to correct mistakes by lifting Iran sanctions amid pandemic: Rouhani
Press TV – President Hassan Rouhani says the United States lost a unique opportunity to correct some of its mistakes concerning Iran…
Europe sends medical aid to Iran in first INSTEX transaction: Germany
Press TV – Germany says the three European signatories to the 2015 Iran deal have registered the first transaction under a trade…
Iran should simultaneously fight coronavirus, sanctions: Gov’t spox
IRNA – Spokesman of the Iranian Government Ali Rabiei said on Monday through a video press conference that Iran needs to break…
FM Zarif calls US sanctions amid coronavirus pandemic ‘medical terrorism’
MNA – In his op-ed for Russia’s Kommersant newspaper, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called sanctions, imposed on Iran by the…
Wife recounts Iranian scientist’s ordeal in US jail
Press TV – The wife of an Iranian material sciences professor, who has been held in the United States for close to…
Nearly 1,200 Iranian factories revived in one year, over 21k jobs created
Press TV – Iran’s ministry of industries (MIMT) says hundreds of ailing or closed factories have been revived over the past calendar…
World will fail again if pandemic fails to stop unilateralism: Zarif
MNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed if the global coronavirus epidemic fails to stop melancholy in politics and irresponsible…