New US sanctions on Iran ‘terrorist & cruel’: President Rouhani
President Hassan Rouhani said the new illegal sanctions imposed by the United States on the banking sector amount to an effort of a ‘terrorist, cruel and inhumane’ nature aimed at putting major obstacles to fund transfers for the purchase of medicine and food amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Everyone is witnessing that Washington’s move is in full violation of international law; and in these times of the coronavirus pandemic, the White House’s attitude is completely against humanity; and the so-called advocates of human rights should condemn it globally,” Rouhani said in a phone call with Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnaser Hemmati on Friday, Press TV reported.
The US regime, the president said, acts in line with its political objectives and propagating efforts which have domestic purposes.
The United States on Thursday targeted Iran’s financial sector by imposing illegal sanctions on 18 Iranian banks, in defiance of Europe’s humanitarian objections.
Bank Refah Kargaran, which is favored by the country’s laborers and technical workers, Bank Gharzolhasaneh Resalat, reputed for its small and low-interest loans, and entrepreneurship-focused Karafarin Bank were also among the financial institutions.
The rest of the banned institutions were named as Pasargad Bank, Saman Bank, Sarmayeh Bank, Tose’e Ta’avon (Cooperative Development) Bank, Tourism Bank, and Amin Investment Bank.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian president emphasized that such fruitless moves by Washington come against the backdrop of a strategic blunder by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the multilateral nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed between the Islamic Republic and six major world powers in 2015.
Based on a wrong analysis, Rouhani said, the US administration thought that sanctions would break the Iranian nation’s resistance and cause problems for the country but it was later proved that “this analysis is far from truth and has been inefficient.”
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