At the time of writing, Iran has reported to have over 17,000 infected and 1,135, making it one of the highly impacted countries in the world.  

Punitive sanctions on Iran has meant an acute shortage in medicine and equipment, only accelerating the spread of the virus.

On Thursday 19 March, an Iranian health ministry official, Kianoush Jahanpour, stated that a person is dying every 10 minutes and 50 people are being infected every 50 minutes.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Charities are struggling. Even attempts to build more clinics is stunted because of the sanctions.

To impose such sanctions now would lead to a humanitarian disaster and serves no political purpose. In fact it only puts the world increasingly at risk by allowing the virus to spread.

The US administration has imposed fresh sanctions. The UK should not comply.

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 23/03/2020

The petition surpassed 10,000 signatures last night. This forces the government to give a response to this issue. 

However, if the petition reaches 100,000, the subject will be considered for a Parliamentary debate. 

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 23/03/2020
Reports of fresh US sanctions put on Iran has included a hold of medical aid on the Romanian and Bulgarian border.

CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 08/04/2020:- UK AND OTHERS REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH US SANCTIONS ON IRAN

The UK government gave their official response to the petition:

“The UK lifted economic sanctions on Iran as part of the nuclear deal. There is no evidence remaining sanctions, targeted at nuclear and human rights concerns, affect Iran’s ability to fight Covid-19.”

You can read their full response here.

This news came out as it was reported that the UK, Germany and France by-passed US imposed sanctions to deliver medical aid to tackle the COVID-19 crisis.