Mehdi Hasan Blames US, NOT the Iranian Regime, for Surging Covid Cases in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : During The Mehdi Hasan Show on Sunday the host asked U.S. Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley about "the humanitarian situation in Iran."
52% : If you're an Iranian sitting in Tehran this evening, Rob, struggling to put food on the table for your family, would you think President Biden has done enough to help during this pandemic?"
52% : The United States and Iran are meeting indirectly with European intermediaries shuttling between the two parties.
47% : The administration issued a general license to allow Iran to more easily import all that it needs to combat Covid."
47% : "What will make the real difference is if the sanctions are lifted because they're so multilayered and that's what we've prepared to do if Iran is prepared to do if they will do what they said they would do which is a mutual return to compliance," he continued.
46% : Hasan omitted that there are humanitarian exemptions for U.S. sanctions on Iran.
45% : As of Sunday, the seven-day average of coronavirus cases in Iran is 24,024, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
45% : Since April, there have been six rounds of talks in Vienna between the United States and the parties to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, colloquially known as the Iran nuclear deal, to get the United States and Iran back into that agreement, which the former withdrew from in 2018, reimposing sanctions in addition to enacting new ones as part of what the Trump administration called "maximum pressure" on Iran.
43% : "We're prepared to go much further and lift the sanctions that were imposed in violation of the deal, but Iran has to do its part," said Malley.
40% : MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan blamed the United States -- not the Iranian regime -- for the surge in coronavirus cases in Iran.
34% : On the campaign trail, Biden pledged that the United States would re-enter the nuclear deal if Iran returned to compliance.

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