Iran, With Over 47,000 Cases, Says U.S. Sanctions Are Taking Lives

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\"Iran, a global epicenter of the virus, has confirmed more than 47,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths, although public health experts estimate the real toll to be several times higher.\"

“We had always said the sanctions are unjust, but coronavirus revealed this injustice to the world,” Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said in a recent video message, which he began by removing a surgical mask from his face with blue latex gloves. He referred to the sanctions as “economic terrorism.”     

“US sanctions are stopping medical equipment from being sent to Iran,” Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in a tweet Tuesday. “As a result, innocent people are dying.”                                                                                                                                Also, in a letter in the Opinion column of The New York Times re: “Iran, With Over 47,000 Cases, Says U.S. Sanctions Are Taking Lives” (news article, April 2):

The United States has a chance to right its reputation with the rest of the world and come to the aid of the citizens of Iran. The humanitarian thing to do would be to lift the sanctions right now while Iranians are dying of a virus they are unable to combat because we have strangled their economy and their health care systems with our avenging sanctions.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has an opportunity now to make us proud that we are Americans.

Evelyn Wolfson Wayland, Mass.