Iran Digest Week of April 16- April 23
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US-Iran Relations
Biden Urged to Lift Sanctions ‘Obstructing’ Iran’s Covid-19 Response
More than 40 grassroots organisations have called on US President Joe Biden's administration to lift restrictions that "have obstructed the flow" of critical medicine and humanitarian goods into Iran, amid the devastating toll of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The antiwar, human rights, and religious organisations, in an open letter on Wednesday, accused the administration of compounding "the suffering of people in Iran" through US sanctions.
Iran has entered its fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with the death toll surpassing 250 people a day. Experts have warned that the numbers will soon reach an average of 600 daily deaths.