Iran won’t seek US virus help

Middle East Desk
Report

DUBAI: Iran will never ask the United States for help in the fight against the new coronavirus, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected offers from Washington for humanitarian assistance for Iran, the Middle Eastern country so far worst-affected by the coronavirus, with 3,739 deaths and 60,500 people infected according to the latest figures on Monday. “Iran has never asked and will not ask America to help Tehran in its fight against the outbreak. But America should lift all its illegal unilateral sanctions on Iran,” Mousavi said in a televised news conference. Tensions between the two countries have been running high since 2018, when Trump quit a 2015 agreement that lifted sanctions on Iran in return for curbs to its nuclear programme.