Iran says new US sanctions violate sovereignty of other states

Iran on Saturday condemned new US economic sanctions against Tehran, arguing that Washington’s use of secondary sanctions violates the sovereignty of other countries and international law, Anadolu reports. “The United States’ declaration of new economic sanctions on Iran is far more than continued unlawful ‘economic warfare’ against a single country,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on US social media company X. “It is an assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent Member State of the United Nations,” he added. Baghaei argued that no country can lawfully force foreign banks, companies or airports under the jurisdiction of other sovereign states…