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1)
White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro:
China hoarded PPE from across the globe, including 2 billion masks, while hiding #COVIDー19.

#Iran has very similar practices, hoarding medicine & medical equipment, and selling them to needy Iranians at skyrocketing prices.
2)
Alborz Province, N Iran
Over 100 million surgical & medical gloves.
3)
Shahr-e-Rey, south of Tehran, #Iran
Around 28 million gloves of various types found in a stash of hoarded medical supplies.
4)
A warehouse full of hoarded medical supplies near the city of Pardis, SW of the Iranian capital Tehran. Items include 4,000 pieces used in orthopedic & heart illness surgeries.

Value = Over $3 million
5)
Iran’s regime is corrupt to the bone
6)
Brian Hook, U.S. Special Rep on Iran
Facts:
-Medicine is not sanctioned.
-Regime itself is preventing access.
-Regime & IRGC-affiliated entities are hoarding drugs & other critical medical products that they can then sell at marked up prices for profit.
7)
March 16 - #Iran
Aid from China
15 tons of medical supplies, including 1,512 boxes of testing kits, oxygen ventilator machines, body temperature-controlling monitors...

More proof that
- @JZarif lies
-Iran has medical supplies, just not for the people
8)
Ordinary Iranians are complaining of shortages in medical supplies such as face masks.

The truth is that regime officials/insiders are hording supplies for massive profits.

Reuters: https://reut.rs/2I9tdoP 
9)
Conclusion:
a. As seen in this thread, the regime in Iran has ample medical supplies to provide for the Iranian people & medical professionals. However, the regime, and its apologists/lobbyists (see image), are using this opportunity as a pretext to have U.S. sanctions lifted.
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