{"id":16911,"date":"2020-04-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/former-world-officials-call-on-us-to-ease-iran-sanctions-to-fight-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-06T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:00:00","slug":"former-world-officials-call-on-us-to-ease-iran-sanctions-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16911","title":{"rendered":"Former world officials call on US to ease Iran sanctions to fight Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group of former diplomats and ministers says shifting rules on medical trade could save hundreds of thousands of lives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-at-a-glance\/latest\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A group of 24 senior diplomats and defence officials, including four former Nato secretary generals, have urged Donald Trump to save \u201cpotentially hundreds of thousands of lives\u201d across the Middle East by easing medical and humanitarian sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/us-ignores-global-appeals-suspend-sanctions-coronavirus-pandemic-iran-venezuela\">US ignores calls to suspend Venezuela and Iran sanctions amid coronavirus pandemic<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/former-world-officials-call-on-us-to-ease-iran-sanctions-to-fight-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group of former diplomats and ministers says shifting rules on medical trade could save hundreds of thousands of livesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCoronavirus latest: at a glanceA group of 24 senior diplomats and defence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,415,1335,1333,448,212,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-hassan-rouhani","category-international-monetary-fund-imf","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions\/16912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}