Pars Today
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said a Swiss humanitarian channel recently launched for exporting food and medicine to Iran proves that the products have been sanctioned by the US.
Iran has dismissed as insufficient a Swiss-US “humanitarian” channel set up to enable medicine transfers to the country, arguing that the United States is originally banned by the International Court of Justice from subjecting Iran’s much-needed medical supplies to sanctions.
A senior trade official in Switzerland has said that the country’s newly-launched financial channel meant to bring humanitarian items to Iran would guarantee that Tehran receives some of the badly-needed medicines whose delivery have been hampered by the American sanctions on the country.
On a national level, lack of trust in capitalism was highest in Thailand and India at 75 percent and 74 percent, respectively, with France close behind at 69 percent.
Iran summoned the Swiss charge d’affaires, whose country represents US interests in Iran, for a second time on Friday to hand him Tehran's answer to Washington's message.
Iran has summoned the Swiss charge d’affaires, whose country represents US interests in Iran, over Washington's assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, decrying the attack as a "blatant instance of state terrorism".
A Swiss channel for the export of food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods to Iran is to open “within months”, officials have told Reuters, amid Europe’s failure to launch its long-awaited Iran channel known as INSTEX.
Tehran has summoned the Swiss ambassador, whose country represents US interests in Iran, to protest Washington’s interference in the Islamic Republic’s internal affairs.
Scientists at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have used machine learning methods to improve optoacoustic imaging.
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli travelled to Geneva to attend the 70th session of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).