TEHRAN — The Los Angeles Times has published letters to the editor from people across the United States calling for easing of anti-Iran sanctions which have hampered the country’s fight against coronavirus pandemic.

Two of the letters are presented below:

To the editor: Although I try to be a person of faith, I have little faith in the current administration’s receptivity to calls from former leaders of both parties and columnist Doyle McManus to ease sanctions against Iran during this global health crisis.

Still, I’ll hope that some trusted advisor to President Trump or Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, fresh from celebrating the spiritual renewal of Easter or Passover, will appeal to the wisdom of acting on our professed Judeo-Christian values with generosity toward fellow humans suffering from the pandemic that plagues us all.

Easing sanctions to allow for medical relief would remind the world who Americans are; we might even remind ourselves.

Carol Flint, Santa Monica

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To the editor: McManus is right to support COVID-19 aid for Iran.

More than that, we should end all U.S. sanctions now against Iran, re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal and begin to tell the truth about what went wrong in U.S.-Iranian relations as well.

Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was blowback from the CIA-backed coup against its elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953.

U.S. foreign policy has been egregious throughout the post-World War II, Cold War era, and continues to be so. Pompeo’s claim that the U.S. is the “leading light of humanitarian goodness” in the world is grotesque.

Rachel Bruhnke, San Pedro

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