Following Trump tariffs and US sanctions on Indian companies, Tehran accused the US of weaponizing the economy, using sanctions to hinder development of countries like India and Iran, and attempting to use tariffs as a tool to impose its will on sovereign nations.
Iran has come out in open support of India and condemned US President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on Indian imports and imposed sanctions on Indian companies for trading with Tehran. In a statement, the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi slammed the United States for its “discriminatory” policy, which it said was in clear violation of international law and national sovereignty of India.
What did Iran say?
The embassy accused the US of weaponizing the economy, using sanctions to hinder development of countries like India and Iran, and attempting to use tariffs as a tool to impose its will on sovereign nations.
“The United States continues to weaponize the economy and use sanctions as tools to dictate its will on independent nations such as Iran and India and impede their growth and development. These coercive discriminatory actions violate the principles of international law and national sovereignty, representing a modern form of economic imperialism,” the Iranian Embassy wrote on its official X handle.
“Resisting such policies is a stand for a more powerful emerging non Western-led multilateral world order and a stronger Global South,” it added.
Why Iran condemned US sanctions?
The Iranian Foreign Ministry also condemned the imposition on US sanctions on Iranian individuals, entities, and vessels related to Iran’s oil and energy sector. In a statement, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei described the sanctions as “unlawful and oppressive” and a clear evidence of the “hostility of US decision-makers toward the Iranian people.”
Earlier, on Wednesday, the the US State Department announced fresh sanctions against as many as 20 companies, including six Indian firms, for purchasing petroleum and petrochemical products from Iran. The US has imposed sanctions of Tehran’s oil exports for allegedly carrying out is nuclear weapons’ program, and any company, country, individual or legal entity that does business with Iran, has to face penalties.
