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Senator Murphy calls on Washington to ease sanctions on Iran, Venezuela amid pandemic
Mar 28, 2020 00:45An American senator has called on the US administration to ease economic sanctions against Iran and Venezuela as the restrictive measures are hindering the humanitarian response to the coronavirus pandemic in the countries.
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Coronavirus spread keeping up, Iran's Zarfi urges release of Iranians jailed in horrific US facilities
Mar 27, 2020 13:41Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urges the United States to release innocent Iranian scientists jailed in horrific US facilities amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
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US sanctions hamper coronavirus fight in Venezuela
Mar 27, 2020 13:40Venezuela’s economy relied on oil exports to generate the revenue necessary to import goods. With the fall in oil prices came a directed attack on Venezuela by a new round of unilateral and illegal sanctions from the United States. These sanctions prevented oil companies and transportation firms from doing business with Venezuela; international banks seized Venezuela’s holdings in their vaults, including $1.2 billion in gold in the Bank of England, and stopped doing business with Venezuela.
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Iran making progress in search of new funds to fight coronavirus: Chief banker
Mar 27, 2020 10:31Iran’s chief banker says efforts for accessing new sources of hard currency to fight the new coronavirus pandemic have borne fruit.
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China's Xi offers help to US but Trump intensifies sanctions on countries
Mar 27, 2020 09:57President Xi Jinping says China is ready to help the US with the fast-growing coronavirus outbreak, as Washington steps up its sanctions policy against world countries.
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Iran slams ‘baseless’ US accusations against Venezuela’s president
Mar 27, 2020 09:53Iran’s Foreign Ministry has slammed Washington’s “baseless” accusations against the Venezuelan president as the pinnacle of “obscene unilateralism” and a flagrant violation of international law.
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Putin calls for sanctions 'moratorium' amid pandemic
Mar 27, 2020 00:10Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the lifting of the illegal sanctions on various countries that are hindering the global fight against the new coronavirus.
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US imposes new illegal sanctions on Iranian and Iraqi individuals, companies
Mar 26, 2020 14:21The United States has imposed new illegal sanctions on 20 companies, officials and individuals in Iran and Iraq, despite growing global pressure on the US to end the illegal sanctions on Iran as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.
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Zarif: Even pandemic won’t stop US propaganda against Iran
Mar 26, 2020 03:54Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted his American counterpart Mike Pompeo for keeping up a “third-rate propaganda” barrage against Tehran even at a time when the world is busy fighting a deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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Iranian businessman says pandemic could help Iran restore global economic position
Mar 25, 2020 13:11The coronavirus pandemic may lead to a drastic change in Iran’s economic position in the world given that many countries are now pressing the United States to ease its illegal and unilateral sanctions on the country to help it fight the virus, says a major Iranian businessman.