The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, Esmail Baqai, replied that the sanctions “to avoid Iran’s legal trade with its economic partners are an illegitimate, illegal measure” and “unjustified”, which “violates international laws and norms.”
“The Iranian government holds the United States for the consequences of these unilateral and intimidation acts,” said the diplomat in statements collected by the Irna state agency.
The Donald Trump government applied its first sanctions against the Iranian oil sector on Thursday, to aim against an “international network that facilitates the delivery of millions of Iranian crude oil barrels, for a value of hundreds of millions of dollars, to China” , requires a statement from the Treasury Department.
“This network generates illicit income for the Iranian army” that allows “financing terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah,” said the State Department in a separate statement.
Sanctions and sanctioned
The action includes several oil ships, the companies that chartered them and individuals of different jurisdictions, including China, India and United Arab Emirates.
Among the sanctioned entities and individuals is Sepehr Energy, which Washington describes as a “facade company” of the Iranian army.
The sanctions involve the freezing of assets maintained directly or indirectly by the companies under The sanctions, under the risk of being sanctioned in turn.
They also complicate the commercial exchanges of punished companies, limiting their ability to use the dollar in their transactions, with the risk of falling under US jurisdiction.
“Maximum economic pressure” about Iran
The US president, Donald Trump, signed on Tuesday a memorandum in which he ordered the treasure and other government agencies of the country to apply economic “maximum pressure” on Iran to stop the roads that can lead to the country to develop nuclear weapons.
“The Iranian regime is still determined to take advantage of its oil income to finance the development of its nuclear program, produce lethal ballistic missiles and drones and finance regional terrorist groups,” said the new secretary of the Treasury, according to the statement.
Towards a new “verified” nuclear agreement?
Despite this, the Republican said a day after he would like He wants to reduce the Persian nation.
Iran respond immediately, if the main issue for the United States is that the country does not obtain nuclear weapons, its differences can be solved and that “there is no problem.”
However, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Jamenei, said Friday that maintaining conversations with the United States “is not wise, is not intelligent and is not honorable.”
“It should not be negotiated with such a government,” said the highest political and religious authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a meeting with military in Tehran, Irna state agency reported. And he recalled that “they would negotiate with the US years ago, an agreement was reached, but the Americans broke it.”
The US president already imposed the “maximum pressure policy” against Tehran during his first term (2017-2020) and abandoned in 2018 the 2015 nuclear pact that limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of the sanctions, which were reimposed, sinking the Iranian economy.
After the US departure from the nuclear agreement, Iran enriches Uranium well above what is allowed and already has 182.3 kilos enriched at 60 % purity, close to military use of 90 %, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA).
Source: Deutsche Welle
