On Tuesday, US Department of State spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told BBC Persian that the Trump administration opposes loans to Tehran by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank amid the coronavirus crisis sweeping the globe, even as Iran suffers from the worst outbreak of the virus in the Middle East.
US Senator Dianne Feinstein, representing California, called on US President Donald Trump to abolish the plan by his administration to block Iran’s request in the International Monetary Fund for $5 billion in aid to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic in the country.
“I am disappointed to see reports that your administration intends to block Iran from receiving $5 billion in humanitarian aid from the IMF to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” Feinstein wrote in a letter to Trump on Thursday. “Providing these funds to Iran would help it respond more effectively to the disease and mitigate the risk of further destabilization in the region.”The Senator said that Tehran has been “unable to contain the spread of the disease within its borders” due in part to unilateral US economic sanctions on the country.
The coronavirus has hit Iran hard, with the potential for even greater spread in the region. In the interest of international security, President Trump should support Iran’s request to the IMF for emergency funds to contain this virus. pic.twitter.com/yWD3kD9Qem
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) April 9, 2020
Feinstein argued that if the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran is not quickly controlled, it will spread in the region and beyond, endangering US and coalition troops in neighboring countries, including Afghanistan.
“It is in our national interest, and in the interest of international security, to help Iran contain this disease,” Feinstein said.The Senator called on Trump to support Tehran’s request for the aid. She suggested that as a means of spending oversight, the request for US support could be “contingent upon IMF oversight on how Iran spreads the funds”.
On Tuesday, Ortagus, a spokeswoman for the US Department of State, asserted to BBC Persian that any IMF loans to Iran would be used by Tehran “to help their terrorist proxy groups in the Middle East” and not to benefit the Iranian people.
On Thursday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the IMF must fulfill its duties toward Iran, a member that has “not asked the [IMF] anything” in over 50 years, by providing an essential loan to help the country mitigate the devastating effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
As of Saturday, the total number of COVID-19 patients in Iran had topped 70,000, with 4,357 fatalities and 41,947 recoveries.
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This video is for all those Americans who has NO clue from nature of the beasts Ayatollahs or ruling criminal mullahs in Iran. Ask Iranians to translate it for you.
“It is in our national interest, and in the interest of international security, to help Iran contain this disease,”
Thank you senator Feinstein for listening to the voice of reason with compassion. It’s very encouraging.
And thanks to those members of congress and senate such as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Ro Khanna who are pushing for the removal of sanctions during the covid19 pandemic.
And thanks to all those individuals and organizations who contacted Sen. Feinstein regarding the sanctions on Iran during the pandemic. Way to Go!
Shlomo says:
“you could of accelerate it with a few MOABs (Shlomo’s personal preference!)”
There is another guy here that like you he has gone cuckoo but unlike you he is an anti Ashkenazi racist and thinks all problems in the world are caused by them!!!!
He also sometimes talks of MOAB kinds of things. I suggest you two get together and play with each others MOABSs, in these boring stay home days it could be amusing for both of you! 🙂
“London based news channel Iran International, which is believed to be funded by the Saudi Royal Court, organized a town hall event with Reza Pahlavi, the former crown prince of Iran, on Nov 1, 2018 — only days before the Trump administration reimposed the second round of sanctions on Iran targeting the Iranian banking, aviation and oil industries, among many other sectors. The event was held at the Newseum in Washington, DC.”
Above quote from:
https://www.icjournal.ca/post/pro-sanction-iranian-canadians-at-town-hall-by-saudi-funded-channel
It is a good call by Feinstein, we’ll have to see if voices such as hers succeed or if the voices of Islamofascism of Saudi Arabia and AIPAC and their Iranian sycophants succeed.
Ruling criminal mullahs in Iran are islamofascism. The bastards did NOT even allow the family members of those innocent Iranians, who shot and killed in month of November, have a mourning ceremony for their loved ones. Furthermore, criminal mullahs threatened family members NOT to talk to anybody such as neighbors regarding the death of their loved ones.
We never see such as Islamofascism in any other country.
Medicine and similar humanitarian aids to Iran have never been part of the sanctions regime.
If the IRI regime blocks the flow of such goods from reaching to the ordinary folks in Iran it’s either due to its evil nature or sheer incompetence – we venture out to say both.
Maximum pressure on the IRI regime shall continue – it’s the only sensible path to the demise of the terrorist regime, you could of accelerate it with a few MOABs (Shlomo’s personal preference!)
Might as well have the COVID virus be the mascot for pro-Iranian sentiment in the United States right now. Before this, she was accused of insider trading and profiting from pandemic.
This sort of maneuver is, again, either emblematic of a pattern of incompetency by the Soros orgs., or it could just be that Kissinger/Soros are POSes who are exactly the reasons Iranians have been suffering for decades?
Our enemies are dictating our interests and even our international relations.