Text Size: A- A+New York/London/Washington: The devastation of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran is raising pressure on the U.S. to ease sanctions on the Islamic Republic. So far, the Trump administration isn’t budging. sanctions are not preventing aid from getting to Iran,” Brian Hook, the State Department’s point person on Iran issues, said in an interview. China and Russia — former partners in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Trump abandoned — have stepped up calls for the U.S. to relax its sanctions. The U.K. has quietly prodded the Trump administration to ease sanctions because of the crisis, the Guardian reported, without saying where it obtained the information.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 23, 2020 07:52 UTC