Al-Assad-Zarif Meeting: COVID-19 Pandemic Shows West’s Failure, Immorality

By Staff, Agencies

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad confirmed that the ongoing global crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed Western countries' failure and immorality.

In a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his accompanying delegation in Damascus on Monday, Al-Assad underlined that “The coronavirus crisis has exposed the failure of the Western regimes as well as their immorality, because the pandemic showed that these regimes only serve a select few of individuals with vested interests, instead of serving their people.”

Al-Assad further condoled Iran and its people over the victims of the Coronavirus, voicing regret that this pandemic has become a subject of political investment by some states in the West, mainly the United States which continues to impose sanctions on states despite of these exceptional humanitarian circumstances.

For his part, Zarif said the US administration's refusal to lift sanctions on Syria and Iran has revealed its inhumane nature to the world.

“Now, the true intentions of the US with regard to its refusal to lift cruel sanctions on nations under the difficult situation of fighting against this disease has been revealed” he warned.

Meanwhile, the top Iranian diplomat denounced the West’s current attempts to re-exploit the issue of “chemical weapons” in Syria, saying that it is shameful that this pretext would be used again in light of the situation around the world, not to mention all the doubts and inconsistencies that emerged regarding this issue recently.