Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei says new US sanctions against Iran go far beyond an illegal economic war on a single nation, characterising them as a “declaration of war” against all governments, according to remarks carried by Iran’s Fars news agency.
– The announcement of new sanctions represents “an attempt by the United States to exert extraterritorial sovereignty over all independent UN member states”, Baghaei said.
– “No government has the right to force foreign banks, enterprises, or airports, each operating under the exclusive jurisdiction of their own sovereignty, to refrain from engaging in legitimate trade with a third country.”
– He argued that “such secondary sanctions have no basis in international law”, adding that they “violate the fundamental principle of sovereign equality enshrined in Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the UN Charter”.
– Baghaei characterised economic coercion as an “international offence and a wrongful act”, warning that combining sanctions with a naval blockade “reduces the sovereignty of other states to something temporary and conditional upon the whims and caprices of another power”.
– Yielding to such intimidation, Baghaei added, would lead to “the total erosion of national sovereignty” and serve as “a catastrophic return to blatant, full-scale colonialism”.
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