Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, on Wednesday criticized the U.S. for blocking an Iranian request for a loan from the International Monetary Fund
“in a letter addressed to the head of IMF, I have requested five billion U.S. dollars from the RFI emergency fund to help our fight against the coronavirus.”from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus resource center, Iran has had more than 5,000 deaths from the virus, one of the highest in the world.
"If the decision is taken of refusing this request from Iran I really, deeply regret [it] for humanitarian reasons," said Borrell who stressed that "we supportYet "the problem is the capacity of Iran to have the capital ... to buy, to pay for the resources they need in order to fight against the coronavirus and ... they have needs they cannot fulfill due to the factThe former Spanish foreign minister said the U.S.
For these reasons "we supported first to soften the sanctions and second the request of Iran to the International Monetary Fund for getting financial help."
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