Twenty-four former cabinet ministers and senior diplomats called on the United States on Monday (April 6) to ease humanitarian trade with Iran due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying a targeted reduction in U.S. sanctions would have “a significant impact on the ability of Iran’s healthcare system to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak”.
In particular, they call for expanding the scope of humanitarian exemptions under U.S. sanctions to directly include devices and equipment necessary to...