US Sanctions Impede Iranian Response to Coronavirus
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran, to talk about how US sanctions on Iran are stymieing efforts there to contain the Coronavirus outbreak, why US meddling in Iran's economy and media ecosystem represent a form of psychological and economic terrorism, why the mainstream press seems to hold the Chinese and Iranian responses to a higher standard than those of NATO states, what gloating by senior US officials over the spread of the virus in Iran and China tells us about the short-sightedness of the neoliberal capitalist outlook, whether the US healthcare system is even logistically capable of containing the virus, and why references to the illness as the "Chinese" or "Wuhan" Coronavirus are fundamentally racist.