Iran's friends should have defied US sanctions during pandemic: President Rouhani September 04, 2020 at 11:30PM

"Over the past months since the coronavirus arrived in our country... no one came to our help," Rouhani said in remarks broadcast live on Iranian state television. If the United States "had a bit of humanity and brain," he said, it would have offered to "lift the sanctions for a year because of the coronavirus."