US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized Iran’s healthcare infrastructure while offering empty gestures of help, adding insult to injury after years of devastating sanctions have deprived the nation of lifesaving supplies.
Pompeo’s dismissive take on Iran’s struggle with the coronavirus epidemic verged on scornful, managing to gloss over the US’ role in creating the supply and drug shortages exacerbating the outbreak, and to slam Tehran for not sharing “enough” information in just a few short sentences during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Friday.
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