As your client, I request you to immediately take the necessary measures to cancel the economic sanctions against Iran for humanitarian reasons. Now is the time for COVID-19 diplomacy. Iran has reported that as of Wednesday, March 18, 2020, there have been more than 16,000 patients infected with the corona virus and more than 1,000 deaths. Iran has warned that millions of people may lose their lives. Part of the reason is the US economic sanctions against Iran, due to which Iran is suffering from a lack of medicine, sanitary materials, and equipment needed to test and diagnose Corona.
When Corona entered Iran on February 19, Iran’s economy had suffered terrible damage due to the US sanctions. The Iranian rial had lost 80 percent of its value, and oil exports had dropped from 2,500,000 barrels a day to 250,000 barrels a day. This has left very few resources for the Iranian government both to pay the huge cost of medical treatment for patients and to help those who have lost their jobs and income or their businesses have gone bankrupt.
The humanitarian aid of food and medicine was not supposed to be sanctioned. But this has not happened. Shipping and insurance companies are unwilling to take risks on business relations with Iran, and banks are either unable or unwilling to arrange payment for Iranian purchases and exports. In October 2019, Human Rights Watch warned that the imposed and excessive nature of US sanctions against Iran has caused banks and companies [even] to back out of deals to provide humanitarian aid to Iran, resulting in Iran being unable to provide medicine for its ills. rare or complicated and provide the necessary treatments.
On February 27, 2020, the US Department of Treasury announced that it will allow the sale and transfer of some human products through the Central Bank of Iran. But this was both too little and too late, and as a result, the speed of the spread of Corona in Iran has not slowed down.
Health, hygiene, and access to medical treatment are basic human rights. For the sake of the health of 80 million Iranians, as well as Iran’s neighbors, we ask you to issue and approve a statement, resolution, and law, and in them ask the United States to immediately cancel its sanctions against Iran so that we can help the nation that is suffering from the corona virus. Its destruction is:
The World Health Organization and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres should issue statements and announce that the sanctions against Iran should be lifted immediately.
The U.S. Treasury Department should lift all sanctions related to health products, drugs, health laboratory kits, and equipment. In addition, we ask the United States to cancel all sanctions against Iran, and to end the maximum pressure policy that has crippled Iran’s economy.
Unlawful US sanctions have drained Iran’s economic resources, impairing its ability to fight #COVID19. At least 16,000 infected, 1,000 dead Health, hygiene, and access to medical care are fundamental human rights. Tell U.S. Congress, the WHO, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, and the U.S. Tr.
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