MNA � Deputy FM Araghchi has slammed the �downright inhuman� remarks by Mark Dubowitz, CEO of hawkish American policy institute FDD, amid an outbreak of coronavirus in Iran.

�It's shameful and downright inhuman to cheer for a deadly Virus to spread - and enjoy seeing people suffer for it,� Iranian deputy FM Abbas Araghchi wrote in a tweet.

His tweet was in response to the remarks made by CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), Mark Dubowitz, in which he said, �Coronavirus has done what American economic sanctions could not: shut down non-oil exports.�

Araghchi went on to add that Dubowitz at least �understands that the American economic sanctions were not -- and will not [be] -- as effective as a Covid-19 Virus.�