Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, has said, the United States’ declaration of new economic sanctions against Iran was “far more than continued unlawful ‘economic warfare’ against a single country”.
“It is an assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent member state of the United Nations,” he said.
“No state may lawfully compel foreign banks, enterprises, or airports - each subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of its own sovereign - to renounce lawful commerce with a third state,” he added.
