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Syria UN envoy calls for lifting of sanctions amid COVID-19 outbreak
Mar 31, 2020 09:35Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja’afari has called upon the international community to work on lifting illegal economic sanctions and coercive measures imposed on his war-ravaged country and other states as the world is battling to rein in a deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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Europe sends medical supplies to Iran in first INSTEX transaction: Germany
Mar 31, 2020 09:10Germany says the three European signatories to the 2015 Iran deal have registered the first transaction under a trade system set up last year to protect companies doing business with Iran from US sanctions, delivering medical supplies to the Islamic Republic amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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US extends sanctions waivers on nuclear cooperation with Iran
Mar 31, 2020 08:57The United States has once again waived its sanctions on nuclear cooperation with Iran, allowing firms of the remaining signatories to a 2015 nuclear deal to continue working on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Iran mass-produces homegrown rapid test kits for COVID-19
Mar 31, 2020 04:15Iran’s Defense Ministry has begun the mass production of rapid coronavirus test kits which yield a faster result compared to PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) based kits.
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US sanctions leading to 'humanitarian catastrophe': Iran's Zarif
Mar 31, 2020 02:51Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said US sanctions have made it “impossible” for Iranians to have access to essential drugs during the Covid-19 pandemic, warning that the bans are leading to a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
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Iran's Defense Ministry unveils rapid test kits for novel coronavirus
Mar 30, 2020 12:27A biomedicine company affiliated with the Iranian Defense Ministry has unveiled homemade rapid tests kits for new coronavirus as the country moves to contain an outbreak that has affected tens of thousands of people.
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Iran: Virus revealed 'ugliest face of US government addicted to sanctions'
Mar 30, 2020 06:54Iran says the coronavirus pandemic underscores the need to end "madness in politics and irresponsible unilateralism" of the US government which is sabotaging the country's fight against the disease through sanctions.
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Syria confirms first COVID-19 death as health system reels from sanctions, war
Mar 30, 2020 01:58Syria’s Health Ministry has confirmed its first death resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic as the country’s fragile health system reels from years of foreign-backed war and sanctions.
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Iran pays another $32 mln to fund fight against coronavirus
Mar 29, 2020 01:42The Iranian government has provided another $32 million in emergency funding to the health sector amid a nationwide effort to contain the new coronavirus.
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‘US continues to block Iranian assets needed to buy medical equipment to fight COVID-19’
Mar 29, 2020 01:19Iran rejects reports that the United States has agreed to grant sanctions waivers to certain countries in order to open up the way for the Islamic Republic to access frozen assets and buy medical supplies and equipment needed to fight the pandemic of the new coronavirus.