{"id":131409,"date":"2019-04-15T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=131409"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:42:12","slug":"flood-hit-iran-getting-no-financial-aid-from-abroad-because-of-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/flood-hit-iran-getting-no-financial-aid-from-abroad-because-of-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood-Hit Iran Getting No Financial Aid from Abroad Because of US Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

US sanctions have prevented Iran from obtaining foreign financial aid to assist victims of flooding that has killed at least 70 people, Red Crescent says.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Floods have inundated Iran’s northeastern Golestan region in recent days.\u00a0(AFP)<\/p><\/div>\n

7 Apr 2019 – <\/em>US sanctions have prevented the Iranian Red Crescent from obtaining foreign financial aid to assist victims of flooding that has killed at least 70 people and inundated some 1,900 communities, the group said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran is under water,\u201d said Sayed Hashem, regional director of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. \u201cThe scale of this crisis means that more help is needed,\u201d he told the New York Times, which said that more rain was forecast in coming days.<\/p>\n

Aid groups are warning that the situation could get worse if the rains do continue, the NYT reported. Train lines have been washed away and neighbourhoods submerged. Footage posted to social media showed raging floodwaters sweeping cars from roadways and rivers bursting their banks, filled with muddy debris.<\/p>\n

“Unprecedented” floods in Iran have killed more than 60 people and washed homes away<\/em><\/p>\n

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week that Washington was ready to help via the Red Cross and Red Crescent, but accused Iran\u2019s clerical establishment of \u201cmismanagement in urban planning and in emergency preparedness\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo foreign cash help has been given to the Iranian Red Crescent society. With attention to the inhuman American sanctions, there is no way to send this cash assistance,\u201d the Red Crescent said in a statement quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n

It said the group had received some non-financial help from abroad, which had been distributed to flood victims.<\/p>\n

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Devastating floods in Iran<\/p><\/div>\n

The German Red Cross sent 40 inflatable boats and other rescue equipment. Several tons of food, water pumps and medicine have arrived from Kuwait, according to IRNA, Iran\u2019s state-run news service, cited by the NYT.<\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said last week that US sanctions – reimposed after Washington quit a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers – were impeding aid efforts to flood-stricken towns and villages.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlocked equipment includes relief choppers: This isn\u2019t just economic warfare; it\u2019s economic TERRORISM,\u201d he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The flood disaster, arising from exceptionally heavy rainfall since 19 March, has left aid agencies struggling to cope and has\u00a0seen 86,000 people moved to emergency shelters.<\/p>\n

The government has told citizens, and especially flood-affected farmers, that all losses will be compensated.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s state budget is already stretched under US sanctions on energy and banking sectors that have halved its oil exports and restricted access to some revenues abroad.<\/p>\n

Iran acted on Saturday to evacuate more towns and villages threatened by floods after continued rain in the southwest.<\/p>\n

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