DUBAI (UAE) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the country’s allies should have stood up to the US and broken its sanctions during the coronavirus pandemic.
The president also said that if the US had a “bit of humanity or brain,” it would have lifted the sanctions temporarily until the health crisis was over.
Iran is one of the worst countries in the Middle East to be hit by the pandemic with over 380,000 registered cases and more than 22,000 fatalities.
“Over the past months since the coronavirus arrived in our country… no one came to our help,” Rouhani said in a televised interview.
The United States “is far more heartless and evil than those things,” he added.
Instead, it “imposed new sanctions and pressures on us over these past seven months of coronavirus,” said the president.
“Not a single friendly country told us that in this time of coronavirus and hardship and for the sake of humanity ‘we will stand up to America'”, he said.