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Iranian ICT Minister says US addicted to sanctioning others

25 November 2019 16:50 (UTC +04:00)

The Minister of Communication and Information Technology said on Monday that the US sanctions indicate its anger and that the US Administration is suffering from bad habit of sanctioning foreign individuals just like the drug addicts, APA reports citing IRNA.

Reacting to his name placed in the US sanctions list, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday that the sanctions imposed on the pretext of human rights issues and access to information are a big lie, raised by the US government.

He said that the Ministry had no role in deciding to cut telecommunications link during the unrest, and that was the US lie in this regard.

"If the United States seeks to expand the information and access of the Iranian people, why Iranian patients suffering from cancer and the children suffering from rare EB disease cannot receive medication due to the US sanctions?" he asked.

"Why Iranian start-ups, businesses, and programmers have been deprived of so many requirements for their jobs in the field of technology?", he asked.