Iran is suffering through a catastrophe. The White House should make it easier for other countries to sell medical supplies to Tehran during the pandemic.
: at least 70,000 infections and more than 4,300 dead — and those official figures are almost certainly too low.Advertisement
But U.S. sanctions don’t just prevent Iran from selling oil, its only major source of foreign income. They don’t only stop Iran from buying weapons or nuclear technology. “The rules are complicated, and businesses that run afoul of them can incur huge penalties,” Richard Nephew, who helped administer the system during the Obama administration, told me.
And for most international banks, shipping companies and insurers, humanitarian shipments to Iran are too small to be worth the risk. Special permission is required to export oxygen generators and full-face respirators, equipment often needed for intensive care of COVID-19 victims, because they could potentially be used for nonmedical purposes.There’s an easy way the Trump administration could ease those problems without bolstering the Tehran regime: Make the existing rules for humanitarian shipments clearer and easier to use.last week by 24 former U.S.
“America remains the world’s leading light of humanitarian goodness [in] this global pandemic,” Pompeo said last week.
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