Efforts to Fight COVID-19 Severely Impacted: Iran President Writes to PM Modi

  • Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, wrote to many world leaders, including PM Modi, over how the efforts to fight COVID-19 has been "severely" impacted by the US sanctions.
  • He wrote, "This virus knows no boundary and claims, victims, without political, religious, ethnic, and racial considerations."
  • He also called the act of continued US sanctions when the world is fighting the coronavirus pandemic, as "immoral".
  • Rouhani tweeted, "It is IMMORAL to let a bully kill innocents. Viruses recognize no politics or geography. Nor should we."
  • In his letter he emphasized that the fight against the COVID-19 requires coordinated regional and international measures, adopting serious strategies, and sustaining huge medical and care costs.
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