Esmail Beqaei, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, has described the new US sanctions against the country as “beyond an economic war” and described it as an attempt to impose Washington’s extraterritorial sovereignty on UN member states.
Baqaei has said that no government has the right to force banks and economic companies of other countries to cut off legitimate cooperation with third countries, and has considered the US’s secondary sanctions to have no legal basis in international law.
He has also warned that using economic pressure and intimidation to force a sovereign state to change its policies is against international principles and, if accompanied by a naval blockade, could constitute an act of aggression.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has emphasized that adopting such policies could lead to the return of “naked colonialism” and the weakening of the concept of national sovereignty in the international system.
