The seven sins of the alliance system of the United States (part 3)

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The United States has imposed more than 1,600 unilateral sanctions on Iran, covering various fields of Iran's national economy, including oil, finance, shipping and automobiles.
45% : The Trump Administration adopted a policy of maximum pressure against Iran, and resorted to long-arm jurisdiction to deter the whole world from conducting legitimate and reasonable economic and trade exchanges with Iran.
44% : After the outbreak of COVID-19, the United States has prevented the International Monetary Fund from granting a loan to Iran to combat the epidemic and not allowed its allies, including South Korea and Japan, to release Iran's frozen funds overseas, depriving the country of the access to medical supplies and COVID-19 vaccines.
44% : In March 2021, UN human rights experts said in a statement that "the sanctions authorised by the United States on the base of announced states of emergency violate a wide range of human rights in China, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, Nicaragua, the Russian Federation, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and other countries around the world."
44% : In the European Union (EU), the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 percent and one in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence.
43% : These measures "constitute serious attacks against the Court, the Rome Statute system of international criminal justice, and the rule of law more generally," the ICC said in a statement, calling the U.S. steps "another attempt to interfere with the Court's judicial and prosecutorial independence."
41% : Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in December 2019 that renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran had cost the country 200 billion dollars in foreign exchange income and investment.
36% : Despite the repeated U.S. claim that humanitarian supplies are exempt from the sanctions, Iran has been unable to purchase medicines and the like through normal channels for a long time, which has caught the country in a humanitarian dilemma of medicine shortages.
32% : Media revealed images of immigrant children being held in "large cages" and recordings of them crying for their parents, saying that the children might face violent law enforcement and dilapidated temporary housing sites, making their physical and mental health a concern.

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