‘Stop interfering in other nations’ affairs’

TEHRAN (Agencies): Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has once again warned US President Trump against interfering in the internal affairs of other countries in the age of the new coronavirus.

Zarif made the remarks in a Sunday posting on Twitter in an apparent reference to Trump’s Saturday allegation that the US would be willing to send ventilators to Iran to help treat coronavirus patients.

“I have offered to help them (Iran) if they want. If they need ventilators, whi-ch they do, I would send them ventilators. We have thousands of excess ventilators. We have a stockpile of ventilators,” the US president said during the daily coronavirus status briefing.

In response to Trump’s remarks, Zarif said, “Iran will be EXPORTING ventilators in a few months, @realdonaldtrump,” exhorting him to avoid interfering in other countries’ affairs.

“All you need to do is stop interfering in the affairs of other nations; mine especially. And bel-ieve me, we do not take advice from ANY Ameri-can politician,” Zarif said.

Iran has been doing its utmost to contain the respiratory disease caused by new coronavirus, COVID-19, despite the hardships caused by Washington’s cruel sanctions.

Tehran’s battle against the virus has repeatedly drawn the praise of the WHO, which has expressed certitude that the Islamic Republic has enough capabilities to stem the outbreak.

Tehran has repeatedly said it does not want Washington’s help in the fight, but wants it to lift its illegal economic sanctions so that Iran could mobilize its own resources to tackle the pandemic.

The Trump administration has not only defied international calls on Washington in recent weeks to halt its draconian sanctions on Tehran, but has even slapped more such restrictive measures on the Islamic Republic.

Washington re-imposed its sanctions on Iran in May 2018 after unilaterally leaving a historic nuclear accord with Iran and other countries that has been endorsed by the UNSC.