Iran says new US sanctions violate sovereignty of other states

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei slams Trump’s latest threat as a return to ‘full-scale classic colonialism’. Iran has decried impending United States sanctions as a “complete erosion of sovereignty” following US President Donald Trump’s threat to punish any country doing business with Tehran.

In a post on X on Saturday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the US announcement was “an assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty” against the United Nations’ member states. Iranian president says time to end war with US from ‘position of strength’ Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ claims first victim: Not Iran, but US markets US allies in Asia wary as Trump moves military assets for Iran war Why Iran is threatening Europe’s ‘strategically important’ southeast No state can compel foreign banks, enterprises or airports to renounce commerce with Iran, he said. “The end result would be the complete erosion of sovereignty as the foundational basis of the UN-based inter-State system, and a recipe for an abysmal return to full-scale classic colonialism,” Baghaei said.

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