{"id":51878,"date":"2020-03-20T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51878"},"modified":"2020-03-20T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:19:40","slug":"as-iran-hits-20000-cases-us-says-coronavirus-wont-save-you-from-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51878","title":{"rendered":"As Iran Hits 20,000 Cases, US Says ‘Coronavirus Won’t Save You From Sanctions’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Iran Hits 20,000 Cases, US Says ‘Coronavirus Won’t Save You From Sanctions’<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Even amid a global pandemic that’s altering daily life as everyone knows it, and with borders shut, markets collapsing, and talk of mobilizing the military domestically, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is keeping up the administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The United States sent Iran a blunt message this week: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from U.S. sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isolating its economy,” Reuters reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider too the blunt headline<\/a> to the report \u2014 U.S. to Iran: Coronavirus won’t save you from sanctions<\/strong><\/em>. <\/em>This as a top Iranian health expert warned his fellow citizens to brace for “millions”<\/a> possibly killed as a result of the deadly pandemic. \u201cOur policy of maximum pressure on the regime continues,\u201d <\/strong>Brian Hook, the US Special Representative for Iranian Affairs, told<\/a> reporters this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But as Spencer Ackerman reports<\/a>, this policy will actually make the Covid-19 spread more dangerous for us all<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not safe in any place until everyone all over the world is safe,\u201d<\/strong> Paul Anatharajah Tambyah, the president of the Asia-Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, told the Wall Street Journal about a new wave of COVID-19 cases in east Asia.<\/p>

\u201cYou have to facilitate these medical goods.<\/strong> Anyone who argues otherwise, or does otherwise, is a sociopath or a moron,\u201d<\/strong> [bold mine-DL] said Jarrett Blanc, a former State Department official who monitored Iran\u2019s compliance with the nuclear deal that the Trump administration abandoned. \u201cThe U.S. should be busting its ass to make sure permissible medical exports are available to Iran. It\u2019s in our self-interest.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The administration gleefully (and fanatically some would say<\/a>) rolled out with new sanctions<\/a> this week targeting over a dozen Iran-linked entities and individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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