Many of jobs done at the humanitarian society had been inspired by Imam Khomeini’s dynamic thought and ideals. The late founder of the Islamic Republic had attached great significance to solving the plight or problems facing the oppressed people of the society.
From rescuing stranded mountain climbers, the survivors of flooding in the north of Iran and the victims of road accidents during the Nowruz holidays to helping earthquake survivors, the Iranian Red Crescent Society is always at the forefront of rescue operations.
With more than two million members, it’s been able to help distressed Iranians wherever they were.
In early April, the then Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the US had frozen the accounts of the Iranian Red Crescent Society as part of its sanctions against the Iranian people, thus preventing other countries from sending humanitarian aid to people in Iran’s flood-stricken areas.
“Given that the accounts of the Iranian Red Crescent Society have been blocked [due to the US sanctions], no foreign citizen or Iranian national living abroad is able to send any relief aid to flood-hit people,” Qassemi at the time told IRNA.
This measure exposes the American officials’ hostile approach towards the Iranian nation and counters all their “ridiculous” claims that the sanctions do not target the people of Iran, he added.
On April 02, Iran’s foreign minister said the US was waging “economic terrorism” against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts targeting flood-stricken people across the country.
In a tweet, Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US sanctions were “impeding aid efforts by Iranian Red Crescent to all communities devastated by unprecedented floods. Blocked equipment includes relief choppers.”
The US re-imposed the sanctions against Iran that had been lifted as part of a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, weeks after Washington left the international agreement in May 2018.
Back in October 2018, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the US to halt the unilateral sanctions it had re-imposed on "humanitarian" supplies to Iran.
Washington has refused to relieve its bans.