Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that US imperialism is a virus which is more harmful than the coronavirus pandemic, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. Iran has been hit hard by the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, which has killed 4,683 people in the country as of Tuesday. While the Iranian regime has been accused of mishandling the crisis by prioritizing political ideology over public health, Tehran has in turn peddled conspiracy theories that the virus was an act of biological warfare by the US. Iranian officials have also blamed Israel and Jews more broadly for the virus. President Rouhani, who frequently criticizes the US and its sanctions campaign against Iran, reportedly made the comments comparing US imperialism and COVID-19 on the phone to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a fellow critic of American foreign policy. “Iran and Venezuela have been able to withstand the invasive and old virus of the US well through solidarity and boosting cooperation,” IRNA reported Rouhani as saying. Read more: More than 26,000 dead due to coronavirus in Iran, says opposition group MEK Coronavirus: Iran says daily virus deaths drops below 100 for first time Coronavirus: Iran will reject any US offer to help, says KhameneiCalls for cooperation with OPEC+ Rouhani also called for cooperation with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and others, known as the OPEC+ group, agreed on the weekend to a historic 9.7 million barrel per day (bpd) oil output cut. According to Fars, Rouhani reportedly said that Iran and Venezuela should cooperate with OPEC+. “We need to continue cooperation for reduction of production and the return of stability to prices,” Fars quoted him as saying. اي استفسار أو طلب خاص بخصوص التوظيف يمكنك التواصل مع الابميل التالي – مجير الموقع : alturky28@gmail.com لطلبات التصميم او البرمجة التواصل مع : hamzalaabar@gmail.com