U.S.-Imposed Economic Sanctions on Iran in the COVID-19 Crisis From the Human Rights Perspective.

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Abbas Karimi, Hojjat Salimi Turkamani

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Abbas Karimi: 48432Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. ORCID
Hojjat Salimi Turkamani: 125619Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.

PMID: 34106781 DOI: 10.1177/00207314211024912

One of the obvious impacts of comprehensive economic sanctions is on pharmaceuticals and supplies, which are essential elements of all functioning health systems. Observers report that comprehensive sanctions imposed on Iran are a barrier to Iran's coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) crisis and could impede Iran's access to coronavirus vaccines. In this minireview, we discuss COVID-19 and its human rights dimensions of U.S. sanctions on Iran. We believe fighting COVID-19 with limited resources during sanctions will produce a humanitarian crisis, and coronavirus is a convincing reason to lift the sanctions on Iran.

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COVID-19

Human Rights

Humans

Iran

SARS-CoV-2

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