UPDATE, OCT 4:
The Iranian Government is in confusion over Foreign Minister Abdollahian’s condition that the US unfreeze $10 billion of Tehran’s assets for nuclear talks to resume.
In comments to Amwaj.media, officials denied that the Foreign Minister’s condition was not a condition.
A “senior Iranian official” said Abdollahian’s statement “is not related to direct talks” with the US.
But he framed it as “a goodwill gesture to smooth the way for the progress in the talks” in Vienna on renewal of the 2015 nuclear agreement. It would be a “positive signal to the Iranian people” if made “before the talks start”.
ORIGINAL ENTRY, OCT 3: Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (pictured) says Tehran will rejoin stalled nuclear talks if the US unfreezes $10 billion of Iranian assets held abroad.
The sixth and last set of Vienna discussions on renewal of the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, UK, France, Germany, China, and Russia) was in June. The previous Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, said then that talks were “closer to the road”; however, the Raisi Government has balked at any resumption since taking office in early August.
Iran Continues to Stall Over Resumption of Nuclear Talks
Amir Abdollahian claimed that the US sought a discussion last month, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, about resumption.
The Americans tried to contact us through different channels in New York, and I told the mediators if America’s intentions are serious then a serious indication was needed…by releasing at least $10 billion of blocked money.
They are not willing to free $10 billion belonging to the Iranian nation so that we can say that the Americans once in the past several decades considered the interests of the Iranian nation.
US sanctions has blocked tens of billions of dollars of Iranian assets in foreign banks, mainly accruing from exports of oil and gas.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry said this summer that agreement had been reached on repatriation of $1 billion of about $7 billion in Iranian assets, but transfer has not been confirmed.
“You might not have noticed that COVID is *not* a parasitic disease.”
Yes, Scott. The virus that causes Covid-19 is an intracellular *parasite*. But I accept that what you meant is that ivermectin is designed for use against animal and fungal parasites, but it has also been shown to destroy viruses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/
The main problem with ivermectin is that it is not very soluble. The correct dosage also has to be fairly exact for it to be effective.
No, COVID-19 is not a “parasite”. You’re combining disinformation with nonsense.
And you can stop linking to the Brazilian papers that 1) were not peer-reviewed and 2) rejected by scientific community, even as they produced damaging consequences of people taking ivermectin and suffering side effects (while still dying of COVID-19).
Turkey again showing more Covid cases and deaths compared to similar-sized Iran:
https://m.bianet.org/english/health/250880-turkey-reports-228-coronavirus-deaths-in-a-day
https://en.irna.ir/news/84494401/COVID-19-kills-216-more-Iranians-over-past-24-hours
Turkey’s vaccination rate is about three times that of Iran.
West Advised to Lift Sanctions on Iran to Overcome Int’l Energy Crisis: https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2021/10/05/2584425/west-advised-to-lift-sanctions-on-iran-to-overcome-int-l-energy-crisis
“Owji said on Monday that people in the United States and some European countries have been paying the price for the unwise policies of their leaders who have banned crude exports from Iran as one of the leading energy suppliers of the world.”
Iranian scientists have shown that ivermectin is an effective anti=Covid19 drug: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34052007/
“A single dose of ivermectin was well-tolerated in symptomatic patients with COVID-19, and important clinical features of COVID-19 were improved with ivermectin use, including dyspnea, cough, and lymphopenia.”
The same with the “Trump drug”, hydroxychloroquine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567576921002721
“In our large outpatient national cohort of adults with mild COVID-19 disease who were given HCQ early in the course of the disease, the odds of hospitalization or death was reduced significantly regardless of age or comorbidities.”
Given that ivermectin is indeed used as a horse de-wormer, it will be interesting to see if there is any peer review upholding this limited study. Even the authors hedge their bets: “Further studies with larger sample sizes, different drug dosages, dosing intervals and durations, especially in different stages of the disease, may be useful in understanding the potential clinical benefits [of] ivermectin.”
Perhaps needless to say, the claims by the Iranian scientists in the July 2021 paper on hydroxycholoriquine did not stand up to scrutiny.
Ivermectin is used an anti-parasitic drug on humans as well as animals: https://www.drugs.com/ivermectin.html
“Ivermectin is an FDA approved drug for use in humans to treat a variety of parasitic infections including parasitic worms, hookworm and whipworm. ….Ivermectin is currently being investigated in a clinical trial as a potential COVID-19 treatment for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Virus, which is the virus that causes COVID-19.”
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh claims that the use of ivermectin has reduced Covid cases substantially: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-pradesh-government-says-ivermectin-helped-to-keep-deaths-low-7311786/
Varharan,
You might not have noticed that COVID is *not* a parasitic disease.
And, yes, the outdated (May 2021) political claim from Uttar Pradesh officials was quickly rejected by medical and public health experts.
S.
” In comments to Amwaj.media, officials denied that the Foreign Minister’s condition was not a condition.”
Is this a direct quote or you also started using spaghetti language?