In a post on X, Baqaei argued that the sanctions are far more than economic warfare against a single country. He emphasized that no state can lawfully compel foreign banks, enterprises, or airports to cease lawful commerce with a third nation.
Baqaei pointed out that secondary sanctions have no foundation in international law, directly violating the principle of sovereign equality enshrined in Article 2(1) of the UN Charter. He also noted that using economic coercion to force a sovereign state to alter its policies breaches the customary prohibition on intervention, as affirmed by the International Court of Justice.
The spokesman further warned that when combined with what he described as a military naval blockade, these U.S. demands reduce the sovereignty of all other states to something "provisional, conditional, and revocable."
He concluded that compliance with such measures erodes the UN-based inter-state system and serves as a recipe for a return to "full-scale classic colonialism."
M.Majdi - H.Hakimzadeh
