right now about 30 percent of our shares are owned by american citizens these sanctions demonstrate the power of american capitalism because the u.s. can impose its will on international companies. multinational corporations pulled back from contracts they'd signed with iran the sanctions also made life hard for ordinary iranians these measures extended even to imports of medicine and medical equipment. supplies of pharmaceuticals from europe dropped sharply. to some iranians then when they will turn it's halves. general i need this medicine for my wife's chemotherapy. not won't be why have they slapped an embargo on it how will people who are sick get their medicine i don't

know what are they supposed to do now you're up all those countries have caved in to the united states that have been well us cause the turn and everybody follows and i've got the france germany back to britain why is that don't they have any compassion for sick people no more want to know anybody. iran has its own pharmaceutical industry but complex drug city used to treat cancer or rare diseases are only produced abroad. this is my heart hospital in tehran the facility specializes in treating children who suffer from cancer it's an ongoing struggle for the staff to find the medicine that their patients need. the hospital is affiliated with a charitable organization and is funded exclusively by donations. children from low

income families are treated free of charge to my heart facility opened in 2003 right now the hospital is desperately short of foreign medicine. and we regularly ask people who travel overseas to buy medicine for us. as a. return of thanks to that kind of support none of our patients has died because we didn't have enough medicine. isn't it we've managed to keep the hospital running through this crisis protocols over the we're not sure what will happen tomorrow or in 2 weeks. he has any and if we can't find people who buy medicine for us overseas we're going to have serious problems. i have seen hospital managers have appealed to the united. nations european officials and the swiss government to help the social little has been down.

and she has a. fine thank you. thank you kid and he. said it was attached to the image there are a lot of contradictions in the sanctions of the promoter you know you have shown your team over to talk to the u.s. government says that these measures would not apply to food and medicines but the one in the bill and european officials have confirmed this they said that we wouldn't need a special permit to buy what we need here as the fact of the matter is that we cannot transfer money to buy medical equipment and spare parts of people who've imposed these sanctions will aware of this problem and the effect that it's having them so why don't international agencies do something to help us charities know how to be no millennium you can have donated anything and. today i want to talk directly to the iranian people to dispel myths about u.s.

sanctions that continue to be promoted by the iranian regime. under our laws a general license is in place today that allows medical devices to be exported from the united states to the iranian people the united states has a great respect for the people of iran and does not think to prevent them from accessing medical supplies or care. president troublous committed just supporting the people of iran and hopes one day for a better future between our 2 peoples you can say that humanitarian trade is exempted it is but when the owner of probably 90 plus percent of the foreign exchange in iran are available to iran is the central bank which can't be used for that trade now it's hard to say that trade can happen and so that's that's been a particular failing of trump administration's policy is both kind of the. the steps taken to close off those areas that are available for that kind of trade and

the kind of unwillingness of the administration and its officials to support that trade and it's been a real problem it makes life for the ordinary iranians worse even though the administration claims to support ordinary iranians and it's plain bad policy that soldiers. in september $29000.00 there was a drone attack on an oil refinery in saudi arabia to see rebels in yemen said they launched the drone strike but several western countries suspected that iran which supports the who see insurgency was behind it iran denied any responsibility but the u.s. so the attack is another example of iran trying to spread its influence across the middle east. how would the united states respond to an assault on one of its closest allies in the region. secretary of state to might pump air travel to saudi

arabia and the united arab emirates to discuss the security situation the u.s. soon imposed another round of sanctions on iran that took no military action to show what issue yeah it was quite a shock for the saudis because they realized how vulnerable they were. everyone was surprised because the attack was very well planned and tactically sophisticated like for senior military officials sat up and took notice. of id israelis for example analyzed the drone strike in detail and came up with a plan to deal with this kind of threat chris was all them and us our neighbors in saudi arabia meet to realize that they cannot be the head. of this region. we. can contribute. to peace and stability just reaching out his well we called for a regional forum in the persian gulf we called for non-aggression pact in the

persian. distributions not trying to security from the united states or from europe. security purchase security has to be produced from. if iran is to conduct such a major attack not only against saudi arabia but against the global oil market and the u.s. is willing to do precisely nothing that sends a very powerful signal it sends a green light to the iranians that they can go ahead and continue pushing the envelope and it tells the saudis the amorality is the israelis that they're on their own more or less. and it seemed that this time iran had gone too far. in late december 29th seen a shiite militia group backed by iran stormed the u.s. embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad in response to us and strikes carried out

against the group in iraq and syria america blamed iran for the attack but tehran denied any responsibility. president trump then decided to strike iran at the very heart of its military establishment. on january discern a u.s. drone attack near baghdad airport killed major general cuz sam sulaimani the commander of the revolutionary guards group that specialized in military and clan design operations outside iran. sulaimani was said to be the 2nd most powerful man in iran huge crowds turned out for a funeral services. when held in several cities in bases around iraq. president trump wasted no time in taking credit for the attack we killed the number

one person in the world salivating and it should have been done 20 years ago if the . only. trump had several options and he chose one that really crossed the line he ordered the assassination of a senior military official. this didn't happen on the battlefield which you might expect in a conflict between 2 enemies you know about soleimani was killed as though he was a common terrorist like osama bin laden and his death came as a shock to the entire country with this on to the millions of people took to the streets to pay their last respects. iran's government can usually get a few $100000.00 people to turn out by mobilizing troops and supporters and providing transportation for them but this event was completely unexpected it was a collective spontaneous expression of emotion.

there were certainly a lot of people in the crowd who opposed to the regime but this was about iran and its honor it went beyond the government iran's honor had been attacked and people are very sensitive about. reeling from the death of syrian money when on january the 8th revolutionary gandhian it shot down a ukrainian passenger jets shortly after it had taken off from tehran. several days later iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many described the incident as an accident and defended the country's armed forces the trumpet ministrations threaten to impose even more economic sanctions but iran's leaders. seems determined to stay the course. do the sanctions change the way they behave are they more concerned with. acknowledging and addressing the concerns of average people or

more concerned with maintaining their own. system and i would say so far they've shown that they're most concerned with maintaining their system there might come a day where they have to respond to a lot of public pressure we've seen various types of protests over the past couple of years more and more in the in the realm of protests against the economic situation but it has not created a groundswell of. protest against the regime as such. and so far there is no real indication that that's happening in the coming days or months generally speaking sanctions or not regime change while it's it's not realistic to just impose sanctions on somebody walk away and hope if you come back and 3 or 4 years that the regime will change they don't work that way you need to have a broader set of of negotiations and you have to give the regime that you're trying

to pressure some incentive to actually change to if the only change they can have is big removed from power it's going to be pretty hard to dislodge them. the u.s. policy of imposing maximum pressure on iran is still in force international economic sanctions have crippled the economy and tehran no longer feels bound by the controls on its nuclear program outlined in the vienna agreement iran could soon produce enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon. the country's relations with the u.s. are at their worst since the islamic republic was founded in 1979. but iran's leaders seem determined to stand up. to the united states as a matter of national pride.

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