The Iranian Regime Alone Is To Blame For Iran’s Coronavirus Crisis.
The mullahs are trying to blame American sanctions. Don’t fall for it.
On Tuesday, the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, claimed that “unlawful US sanctions” were draining Iran’s economic resources and impairing its ability to fight against the deadly coronavirus. In recent days, the Iranian
regime’s apologists in the West have echoed this
narrative; they blame the Trump Administration for limiting Tehran’s ability to fend off the virus.
But Iran’s humanitarian tragedy has very little to do with U.S. policy. It’s the Iranian regime itself that has done the most to contribute to the rapid spread of COVID-19 both in Iran and, more recently,
from Iran to other parts of the world—including the United States. The systematic cover-up, deceit, and inaction by Iran’s regime in recent weeks
have already cost at least 5500 lives. Moreover, through both sheer incompetence and deliberate deceit, the regime has turned Iran into the
epicenter of the coronavirus in the Middle East.