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FM downplays Trump economic warfare as ‘old US bullying tactic’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Trump’s economic pressure campaign against Iran is part of Washington’s longstanding “bullying” tactics.
“Economic warfare is a recurring scenario and the same old bullying tactic in American policy,” he said. “It’s a familiar movie that we’ve seen many times, and we know how to deal with it,” Araghchi said on the sidelines of a visit by the cabinet ministers to the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini.
He said Washington’s renewed use of military threats and claims of possible attacks showed that it was “desperate in the face of the Iranian nation” and had “no new solutions”.
“They must know that there is no other way but to speak respectfully to the Iranian people and find a solution based on justice and honor,” the Iranian foreign minister said.
US President Donald Trump announced new economic measures against Iran on Wednesday, accompanied by a warning that countries maintaining economic engagement with Tehran would face consequences.
Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he was announcing “the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country!”
He added that any country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face tremendous economic consequences.
Iran’s top security chief said that the Islamic Republic will neutralize the US economic pressure, including by responding to countries that join an American “economic war” against the country.
“We will neutralize the economic war. America is backed into a corner. Either they honor their commitments, or they will have to struggle to get out of that corner, which will make the situation worse,” Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei said during a televised interview on Saturday.