Is U.S. pressure to blame, or is it just an excuse for the regime’s incompetence?
But would lifting sanctions really help?
But in practice, sanctions are cutting off supplies of life-saving medicines and equipment. Since the Trump administration reimposed sanctions on trade with Iran in 2018, after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement, and began enforcing “secondary” sanctions on non-American entities that trade with the country, Iran’s economy has been in a tailspin. This is by design.
The renewed U.S. sanctions were having a deleterious effect on Iranians’ health long before the virus hit. “U.S. sanctions are killing cancer patients in Iran,”in Foreign Policy last year. A U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran warned in 2019 that “sanctions and banking restrictions will unduly affect food security and the availability and distribution of medicines, pharmaceutical equipment and supplies.
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