Sanctions and pandemic: On America’s Iran policy

America’s refusal to ease sanctions on Iran even when the West Asian nation is having a hard time hard to consist of the novel coronavirus spread with minimal resources reveals its overall neglect for the humanitarian scenario in the Islamic Republic. Iran, the hardest hit by the pandemic in West Asia, has currently seen 3,739 deaths and 62,589 infections To be sure, Iran failed on numerous fronts in the fight. The government was initially hesitant to impose drastic constraints on businesses, spiritual establishments and people. As infections started spreading out at an exponential rate, it was more than what Iran’s health-care system might handle. And throughout the crisis, the cash-strapped, separated routine struggled to satisfy people’s requirements. But what highlighted these failures are the American sanctions. In 2015, the sanctions, reimposed by President Trump af