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West taking revenge on Iranians with genocide campaign against patients: Govt. spox

Sunday, 09 October 2022 8:47 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 09 October 2022 9:07 AM ]

A thalassemia patient in an Iranian hospital

Iran's government has rebuked the US brutal sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying the West is "taking revenge" on Iranians by waging a “campaign of genocide” against the country’s patients.

Spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi made the remark in a Persian-language post on his twitter account while projecting that 220 Iranian thalassemia patients would be the victims of sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran by the end of the Iranian calendar year falling on March 2023.

“Seventy thalassemia patients lost their lives in the year 2018, 90 in 2019, 140 in 2020 and 180 died last year due to sanctions. According to the projections this year, 220 patients will be the victims of cruel sanctions. Add to this statistic, EB (epidermolysis bullosa) patients and all those [patients with rare and refractory diseases] in need of special medicinal products,” Bahadori Jahromi wrote.

“The West is taking revenge on Iranians through a genocide campaign against the patients,” he added.

۷۰نفر در ۹۷، ۹۰نفر در ۹۸، ۱۴۰ نفر در۹۹ و سال گذشته ۱۸۰ بیمار تالاسمی با #تحریم‌ فوت کردند. طبق پیش‌بینی امسال هم ۲۲۰ بیمار قربانی تحریم‌های ظالمانه می‌شوند. به این آمار، پروانه‌ای‌ها و همه نیازمندان داروی خاص را هم اضافه کنید.
غرب با نسل‌کشی بیماران از ایرانی‌ها انتقام می‌گیرد... pic.twitter.com/R9KCSyqPen
— علی بهادری جهرمی (@alibahaadori) October 8, 2022

Earlier in the day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani censured the US sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying the bans were the “backbone” of the so-called American human rights regulations.

“The whole Iranian people, without any distinction and discrimination, have been struggling for many years with the brutal sanctions of the United States, which have targeted their livelihood, jobs, health and normal life,” Kan’ani said.

“Even EB children were not exempted from the unilateral, illegal and cruel US sanctions. Sanctions are the backbone of American human rights,” he noted.

Iran: Sanctions ‘backbone of American human rights laws'

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani censures the latest round of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying the bans are the “backbone” of the so-called American human rights regulations.

The United States, under the hawkish former president Donald Trump, unilaterally walked out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in May 2018 and reinstated crippling sanctions under the so-called “maximum pressure” campaign.

Over the past five years, the sanctions have targeted various aspects of Iranian lives ranging from economy to health and medical system.

The talks to salvage the agreement kicked off in the Austrian capital of Vienna in April last year, months after Joe Biden succeeded Trump, with the intention of examining Washington’s seriousness in rejoining the deal and removing anti-Iran sanctions.

Despite notable progress, the US’s indecisiveness and procrastination caused multiple interruptions in the marathon talks.

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