Relations between Iran and the United States sank to new lows unseen since immediately after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 over the past two years, with Washington unilaterally pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, and tensions flaring amid a string of tanker seizures, drone shootdowns, assassinations and missile strikes.
The current US administration is the worst and “most evil” in America's history, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said.
The US “has always been a terrorist state,” and has “always acted against independent nations,” Rouhani suggested, but the enormity of the crimes of the current administration are “unprecedented,” particularly amid the raging global coronavirus crisis.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of using its resources to “foment terror across the world” instead of using them to deal with the coronavirus health crisis.
Rouhani made the remarks on Wednesday during an address to cabinet, where he said that although every nation is currently experiencing the hard “tests” brought on by the coronavirus, this is particularly true for Iran and its people, because no other nation has been under the same kind of “siege” that Iran has faced over the past two years of heavy US sanctions.
Iran was one of the first countries outside China to face a major outbreak of COVID-19, and has slammed Washington repeatedly over its sanctions preventing the import of medical…
