Washington’s unilateral sanctions slapped on Iran and other countries are illegal and are de facto a tool of diktat, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters during his working visit to Israel on Thursday, APA reports citing TASS.
"A decision by the [US] administration to continue ‘the policy of maximum pressure’ against Iran certainly implies neither the weakening of sanctions nor any alternatives to what we see after the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," the senior diplomat said.
"We are deeply convinced that any unilateral sanctions as a foreign policy tool are illegal and they are in violation of international law norms, serving as a tool of imposing will, de facto diktat and other manifestations of hegemonic policy, and this refers to Iran and other world regions," Ryabkov noted.
The high-ranking diplomat pointed out that although the Americans realized that these sanctions have not yielded any result of late, they still stick to this policy, which is doomed to failure and is unlikely to make US foreign policy successful.
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