Iran urges countries to reject new US sanctions

Iran on Friday called on all countries to refrain from implementing or recognizing the effects of newly imposed US sanctions set to target states that trade with Tehran.

“All countries are obliged to refrain from implementing such sanctions,” the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement, adding “all governments are also obliged to refrain from recognizing or approving the situations or effects resulting from these illegal actions.”

The ministry claimed that implementing the “unilateral” sanctions amount to “complicity in imposing the illegal will of a state on independent states and disrupting their legitimate economic and trade relations.”

“Regardless of their name and title, the US economic sanctions against Iran are completely illegal and unjustified measures that violate the UN Charter,” it asserting, describing the campaign as equivalent to “US state terrorism against Iran and the world.”

The statement argued that the sanctions violate the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

On Monday, the US Treasury Department launched “Operation Economic Outcast,” an economic campaign targeting the Islamic Republic “and its enablers,” and aimed at severing “every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone,” according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.