President Rouhani addressing the nation on Nowruz
Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has mocked the United States over Conovirus pandemic that is on global visit, not sparing any nation whether powerful or weak.
In his Iranian New Year, Nowruz, message Rouhani waxed philosophical about the fact that the pandemic, in a way, is an enemy troop that all nations, notwithstanding their relationship with one another, must unite to fight.
Iran’s health ministry has said that one person dies from coronavirus every 10 minutes and 50 are becoming infected every hour.
In the words of Rouhani: “The international defense that we have to mount will not be successful without camaraderie on the part of the whole of humankind. Today, instead of soldiers belonging to different armies, human soldiers, donning similar unicolor uniforms belonging to no particular country, are selflessly and altruistically at war against the enemy of humans across the globe. In this common fight, we all belong to one front. We all seek to prevail over our common enemy: a deadly virus. With this enemy, in contrast to other issues, we have no difference of views, and we do not diverge on its nature, its definition and its destructive consequences for the whole of humanity.”
Iran President, however, gave Uncle Sam a punch under the nose! “Historically, the Government of the United States, regrettably, once chose to assist what is worse than a virus—the regime of Saddam Hussein—at a time when the Iranian people were attacked, and Iranian (even Iraqi) women, men and children were not spared by that butcher. Although with the passage of time the U.S. Government noted its errors, it drew no lesson from them. As Daesh (ISIS), the terrorist group, wreaked havoc in the Middle East through its criminal deeds and extremist dogmas, the current U.S. Government handed this terrorist group a victory by assassinating the man who most effectively brought about its destruction.
Rouhani was referring to the assasination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by the United States in Iraq on January 3 this year.
“Today, the Iranian people are harmed by both the deadly coronavirus and the callous U.S. government policy of economic terrorism inflicted on them. Yet, even under the circumstances of the pandemic, the U.S. government has failed to abandon its malicious policy of maximum pressure; and is thus in practice aiding the spread of this virus with its sanctions.”
In response the Trump administration sent Tehran a blunt message: the spread of the coronavirus will not save Iran from U.S. sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isolating its economy.
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