Iran Press/Iran news: Speaking in a Press conference on the occasion of National Reporter's day held on Monday in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif said: "There are two main discourses in the world today, one is discourse for peace, dialogue and abiding by international law, and the other is a discourse of coercion, force, unilateralism, and terrorism. The United States is responsible for economic terrorism against the Iranian nation."
"Economic terrorism means targeting people to follow their policies under coercion. The US government has officially announced that the Iranian people must change their policies if they want to provide their basic needs. That is what is called economic terrorism."
"Economic terrorism means trying to kill and starve people, trying to deprive patients of vital medicines", he continued.
Zarif pointed out that Iran had freely transferred its knowledge when it was at the summit of progress while Western countries were in a period of backwardness, saying that "Today, they do not even let us buy it, however; in the areas where the Islamic Republic is making significant progress, our knowledge is available in the field of defense industries nanotechnology, advanced industrial and nuclear fields, for instance".
Contrasting the difference between the US and Iran discourses, Iran's Foreign Minister added that: "Unilateral discourse, hostility, elimination, and evasion have appeared in White House. America is responsible for wickedness in the world and for this reason, the US is alone in the world today."
"Even in areas that the US is the superpower, it cannot form a coalition. Other countries are embarrassed to have their names next to the US despite having good relations with it", Zarif continued.
The Iran's Foreign Minister stressed: "This situation has been created by the US government with its inhumane behavior, preventing people from accessing food and medicine, creating sedition, tension and crisis wherever they set foot in; from Afghanistan, where the US is today negotiating with the Taliban militants after 18 years to leave the country, Iraq where their presence led to the creation of ISIS terrorists (also known as Daesh terrorists), to Syria where they created nothing but misery for themselves and the region, and the worst was killing 290 innocent people by shooting down an Iranian commercial plane over the waters of the Persian Gulf [in 1988]."
On the eve of the National Reporter's Day, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif answered several questions of Iranian and foreign media reporters in 120 minutes. 207/211/218
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