Iran has been hit hard by the coronavirus. Here’s what that might mean for its threat to the region.

...Now is not the time to relieve those sanctions, according to hawkish critics of the regime, who note that Iran has rejected humanitarian assistance that is allowed under the sanctions. Iran has even expelled a mission by Doctors Without Borders, a group that was positioned to alleviate the impact of the virus, baselessly accusing the group of espionage. "The Iranian government had the power to curtail the virus, but instead they ignored the situation, lied to their people and exacerbated the situation to weaken the resolve of the international community to robustly implement sanctions," David Ibsen, the president of United Against a Nuclear Iran, wrote in EuroNews. "Sanctions are not the villain in this regretful story."