Iran hits back at new Western sanctions

RT.com, 15 Nov, 2022 - Tehran has “strongly condemned” the EU and UK sanctions that the two powers have imposed over its alleged crackdown on human rights, vowing to introduce “a proportional response” to the unilateral action. Iran has been engulfed by violent protests for several months now, sparked by the death in custody of a young woman who had been arrested by morality police.

In a statement on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani described the new European sanctions as “baseless” and “illegal,” adding that by enforcing such measures the West is meddling in Tehran’s internal affairs.

He also castigated Western countries for what he called their “addiction to sanctions,” adding that it had stripped them of their sense of rationality. He also warned that, by embracing such an approach, Europe “is tightening the noose” around its foreign relations.

Kanaani went on to promise that Tehran would take “effective countermeasures against such fruitless and unconstructive measures.”