US administration must compensate losses it has inflicted on Iran: Zarif

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says regardless of who wins the forthcoming presidential election in the United States, the next American administration must make up for the losses that its predecessor has inflicted on the Iranian nation.

According to Press TV, Zarif made the remarks in a virtual address to the annual Mediterranean Dialogues 2020 Conference, which was hosted by Italy, on Monday.

Iran’s top diplomat stressed that it doesn’t make any difference to Iran who becomes the next US president, because the new government must take steps for the compensation of losses incurred by Iran as a result of unilateral measures taken by the US administration.

"It is not important for us who will win the upcoming election in the US, but it is important for us to see Washington rectify its approach towards Tehran," he noted.

Pointing to the US' economic terrorism against the Iranian nation, Zarif said those who claim that they have not imposed any medical sanctions on the Islamic Republic should know that it has not been impossible for Tehran to obtain medicines due to the banking restrictions imposed on the country.

Late in June, Iran’s Foreign Ministry censured the White House for its desperate efforts to lead an international campaign to use ‘economic, medical terrors against Iranian human rights.’

Elsewhere in his address, Zarif said the massive sale of US weapons and military equipment to different countries has been among factors behind the intensification of instability in the world.

The weapons the United States sells only to Saudi Arabia each year is three times the total Iranian military and defense budget, Iran's foreign minister said.

US President Donald Trump in 2017 closed an arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which is worth $350 billion over 10 years and $110 billion that will take effect immediately.

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