The Guardian | Pirouz Hanachi: As mayor of Tehran I have seen lives lost as a result of medical shortages. This is no time for vindictive politics

To many of us urban administrators in Iran, the onslaught of coronavirus has underscored an important fact of life: no town, city or nation can be indifferent to global crises, even in far-flung corners of our world.

Indeed, while the mantra of good governance over the past century has been to �think global, act local�, we must today think and act both locally and globally.

Unfortunately, the small-mindedness that has dominated the politics of various countries in past years has not dissipated. Rather, those who have aggressively advocated pursuit of narrowly defined �national interests� at any cost are doubling down. The consequences of this posturing are many.

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