2024-07-12 09:35:08
Iran has ordered the United States to pay nearly $6.8 billion in damages, accusing it of imposing sanctions that affected patients with a rare skin disease, the Mizan website, an organ of the judiciary, reported Thursday.
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The international court in Tehran ordered the US government to pay $6.785 billion to patients with epidermolysis bullosa, reports Mizan Online.
By unilaterally withdrawing the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, former President Donald Trump reinstated the sanctions raised by this text and imposed new ones.
The American measures “put these patients off the medicine (…)” which led to “the death of around 20 people”, according to the same source.
As part of this trial that opened in Tehran in November 2021, “295 survivors as well as patients” had filed a complaint against 30 American officials “participating in the implementation of the sanctions”, announced the court.
In recent years, international NGOs have lamented that these sanctions pose a threat to the health of Iranians by severely limiting the country’s ability to import medicines.
In March 2024, Iranian justice announced that it had confiscated an American oil tanker in 2023 in the Gulf after complaints from patients affected by epidermolysis bullosa.
Iranian judges have repeatedly criticized the United States in recent years in several cases, including the 2020 assassination of a major general in Iraq.
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