Iran, the hardest hit nation by the coronavirus( COVID-19) pandemic in West Asia, is having a hard time to cope with several difficulties at the very same time— from the debilitating U.S. sanctions and a collapsing economy to falling oil prices and a serious public health crisis.
Sanctions and pandemic: On America’s Iran policy
The pandemic crisis “is adding to the existing concerns on the nation’s economy, which last year saw the GDP shrink by 7.6%as U.S. sanctions cut into its unrefined exports and trade,” stated Naysan Rafati, Elder Iran Analyst at the International Crisis Group.