Pofuna Kuthandizira Khazikika Coronavirus, Ma Lift Sanction on Iran

CODEPINK imachita ziwonetsero kunja kwa Dipatimenti Yachuma. Mawu: Medea Benjamin

Wolemba Ariel Gold ndi Medea Benjamin

Mliri wa COVID-19 (coronavirus) sutali umboni woyamba wa momwe tidakhalira ngati gulu lapadziko lonse lapansi. Mavuto azanyengo komanso vuto laothawa kalekale ndi zitsanzo zosonyeza kuti nkhondo kapena CO2 kutulutsa kandende imodzi kumaika moyo waanthu pamtunda wina. Zomwe coronavirus ikupereka, komabe, ndi mwayi wapadera kwambiri wowona momwe kuwonongeka kwakanthawi kwa dongosolo limodzi lazachipatala kungapangitsire kuti dziko lonse lapansi ligwirizane ndi mliri.

Coronavirus inayamba ku China mu Disembala 2019 ndipo Purezidenti Donald Trump nthawi yomweyo adachichotsa ngati china China. Kumapeto kwa Januware 2020, adaletsa kulowa ku United States kwa anthu ochokera ku China koma adanenanso kuti aku America sayenera kuda nkhawa. Adzakhala ndi 'mathero athu abwino,' iye anati, akumanenetsa kuti mabungwe ake anali olamulidwa bwino.

Ngakhale a Trump adanenetsa kuti miliri ya zamankhwala ikhoza kupezeka kudzera mu ziletso ndi mafunde otsekedwa, ma coronavirus sadziwa malire. Wolemba January 20, Japan, South Korea, ndi Thailand anali ndi milandu yonse. Pa Januware 21, US idatsimikizira kuti anali ndi zaka 30 ku Washington State yemwe anali atangobwera kumene kuchokera ku Wuhan, China.

Pa February 19, Iran idalengeza milandu iwiri ya coronavirus, ikunena kuti patadutsa maola ochepa kuti odwala onse amwalira. Podzafika pa Marichi 13, pa nthawi yolemba izi, kuchuluka kwa matenda a coronavirus ku Iran ndi ochepera 11,362 ndi anthu osachepera 514 mdziko muno wamwalira. Komabe, ndi dziko loyipa kwambiri ku Middle East ndipo chachitatu padziko lapansi, pambuyo pa Italy ndi South Korea.

Ku Middle East, milandu ya coronavirus tsopano yadziwika ku Israel / Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Iraq, Lebanon, Omar, ndi Egypt. Ngati Iran siyitha kuthana ndi vutoli, kachilomboka lipitilirabe kufalikira ku Middle East komanso kupitirira.

Pofika nthawi ya coronavirus ku Iran pa 19 February, chuma cha dzikolo, kuphatikizapo njira yachipatala, zidawonongeka kale ndi ziwonetsero zaku US. Moyang'aniridwa ndi a Obama, chuma cha Irani chinapatsidwa mphamvu pamene mgwirizano wa zida za nyukiliya ku Iran udasainidwa mchaka cha 2015 ndipo zigwirizano zokhudzana ndi nyukiliya zichotsedwa. Pofika mwezi wa February 2016, Iran idatumiza mafuta ku Europe kwa nthawi yoyamba zaka zitatu. Mu 2017, ndalama zakunja zakunja kuwonjezeka Pafupifupi 50% ndi zotengera ku Iran kukodzedwa pafupifupi 40% kuposa 2015-2017.

Kubwezeretsedwako kwa kulangidwa pambuyo poyendetsa olamulira a Trump kuchoka mu mgwirizano wamanyukiliya mu 2018 kwakhala ndi zowononga pa zachuma komanso moyo wa anthu wamba aku Iran. Waku Irani ndalama, phokoso, anataya 80% ya mtengo wake. Mitengo yazakudya kawiri, renti zidakwera, komanso kusowa kwa ntchito. Kutha kwa chuma cha Iran, ndikuchepetsa kugulitsa mafuta kuchokera migolo 2.5 miliyoni patsiku koyambirira kwa 2018 mpaka migolo pafupifupi 250,000 lerolino, kwasiya boma lili ndi ndalama zochepa zolipirira ndalama zochuluka zothanirana ndi chithandizo chachipatala kwa odwala omwe akuvutika kuchokera ku coronavirus, komanso kuthandizira ogwira ntchito omwe akutaya ntchito ndikuthandizira mabizinesi kutayika.

Kuthandiza anthu — chakudya ndi mankhwala —kuyenera kuti sikunali koyenera. Koma sizinakhale choncho. Makampani otumiza ndi inshuwaransi sanafune kuika pachiwopsezo kuchita bizinesi ndi Iran, ndipo mabanki sanakwanitse kapena kulipira kubweza. Izi ndizowona makamaka pambuyo pa Seputembara 20, 2019, pomwe oyang'anira a Trump kuvomerezedwa Banki Yaikulu ya Iran, ikuletsa kwambiri mabizinesi aku Iran omwe adatsalira omwe angatenge nawo zochitika zakunja zakunja zakunja zomwe zimaphatikizapo zothandizira anthu.

Ngakhale Iran isanathe amapereka zida zoyesera zokwanira, makina opumira, mankhwala othandizira komanso zinthu zina kuti muchepetse kufalikira kwa magazi ndi kupulumutsa miyoyo, a Irani anali ndi vuto kupeza njira zopulumutsira moyo. Mu Okutobala 2019, Human Rights Watch (HRW) anamasulidwa lipotilo likuti "kuchuluka kwachulukirachulukira ndikuwononga zachuma za US [ku Iran] kwapangitsa kuti mabanki ndi makampani padziko lonse lapansi abwerere ku malonda othandizira anthu ndi Iran, ndikusiya anthu aku Iran omwe ali ndi matenda osowa kapena ovuta kupeza omwe sangathe kulandira mankhwalawo komanso chithandizo amafuna. ”

Mwa omwe ali ku Iran omwe alephera kupeza mankhwala ovuta akhala odwala ndi leukemia, epidermolysis bullosa, khunyu, komanso kuvulala kwakanthawi kwamaso chifukwa chodziwika ndi zida zamankhwala pa nkhondo ya Iran-Iraq. Tsopano coronavirus yawonjezeredwa pamndandanda.

Pa febru 27, 2020, anthu opitilira 100 ku Iran adadwala ndipo adanenedwa 16% ya imfa, Dipatimenti Yachuma analengeza kuti ikulanda zolakwika kuti zithandizo zina zothandizira zipite ku banki yayikulu ya Iran. Koma zinali zocheperapo kwambiri, popeza kufalikira kwa coronavirus kumayandikira ku Iran.

Boma la Irani lilibe mlandu. Iwo osokonekera kwambiri kuyamba kwa kufalikira, kuchepetsa zoopsa, kufalitsa nkhani zabodza, komanso kumanga anthu omwe adawonjezera ma alarm. China idachitanso zomwezo kumayambiriro kwa kachilomboka. Zoterezi zitha kunenedwa kwa Purezidenti Trump, m'mene adayambitsa kachilombo ka Democrats koyamba, adauza anthu kuti asamachite zachinyengo, ndipo adakana kulandira mayeso omwe amaperekedwa ndi World Health Organisation. Masiku ano, palibe mayeso okwanira ku US, Trump akukana kuti adziyese yekha ngakhale adalumikizana ndi anthu omwe ali ndi kachilombo, ndipo akupitiliza kunena kuti "kachilombo kwachilendo." China kapena US, komabe, alibe zovuta zowonjezera zoletsa zomwe zimawalepheretsa kupeza mankhwala, zida, ndi zothandizira zina kuti athane ndi vutoli.

Si Iran yokhayo yomwe yasankhidwa. US ikupereka zilango pamayiko 39, akukhudza gawo limodzi mwa magawo atatu aanthu padziko lapansi. Kuphatikiza pa Iran, Venezuela ndi amodzi mwa mayiko omwe amakhudzidwa kwambiri ndi malamulo a US, kuphatikizapo njira zatsopano zomwe zikupangiridwa March 12.

Malinga ndi Purezidenti Nicolas Maduro, ku Venezuela alibe milandu ya coronavirus. Komabe, zilango zathandizira kuti Venezuela ikhale imodzi mwamphamvu kwambiri osatetezeka mayiko padziko lapansi. Dongosolo lake lothandizira zaumoyo lili munkhanira kwambiri kotero kuti zipatala zambiri zaboma nthawi zambiri zimakhala zopanda madzi, magetsi, kapena zida zofunikira zothandizira kuchipatala ndipo mabanja ambiri amakhala ndi mwayi wochepa wopezera zinthu zofunika monga madzi ndi sopo. "Monga lero, sizinafike ku Venezuela," Purezidenti Maduro anati pa Marichi 12. “Koma tiyenera kukonzekera. Ino ndi nthawi yoti Purezidenti Donald Trump akhazikitse ziwonetsero kuti Venezuela igule zomwe ikufunika kuthana ndi kachilomboka. ”

Momwemonso, boma la Irani, lomwe lili tsopano ndikufunsa International Monetary Fund ya $ 5 biliyoni yopereka ndalama zadzidzidzi kulimbana ndi mliriwu, yatero lolemba Kalata kwa Secretary-General wa United Nations a Antonio Guterres akufuna kuti zilango ku US zichotsedwe.

Pali zinthu zikuluzikulu zomwe Purezidenti Trump akufunika kusintha kuti athe kuthana ndi mliri wapanyumba ndi kunja. Ayenera kuletsa kuchepetsa vutoli ndikuwalimbikitsa kuti anthu sayenera kuchita zosokoneza anzawo. Ayenera kusiya kunamizira kuti kuyesa kumapezeka. Ayenera kusiyitsa ntchito zamadyera, zopanda phindu. Kuphatikiza apo, komanso zosafunikira, oyang'anira a Trump ayenera kukweza ziwopsezo ku Iran, Venezuela ndi maiko ena kumene anthu wamba akuvutika. Ino si nthawi yofooketsa mayiko chifukwa choti sitikonda maboma awo. Ndi nthawi yobwera pamodzi, monga gulu lapadziko lonse lapansi, kuti tigawane zinthu zomwe tikugwiritsa ntchito ndi njira zabwino. Ngati coronavirus ikutiphunzitsa kalikonse, ndikuti tizingogonjetsa mliri woipawu pogwira ntchito limodzi.

Medea Benjamin ndi amene amapanga CODEPINK kwa Mtendere, ndi wolemba mabuku angapo, kuphatikiza M'kati mwa Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ariel Gold ndi wotsogolera wamkulu wadziko GANIZANI Mtendere.

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