Iran Press/Iran News: In an exclusive interview with CNN, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said US sanctions, which have hit the Iranian economy hard, 'amount to terrorism' on the country's citizens.
"Iran never negotiates with coercion. You cannot threaten any Iranian and expect them to engage. The way to do it is through respect, not through threats," Tasnim News Agency reported.
"All we want to do is sell our oil," Zarif said, adding that the US was "just a bully preventing people from buying our oil."
Also in early April Zarif had said that the US is waging economic terrorism against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts targeting flood-stricken people across the country.
On May 2018, the US President Donald Trump withdrew from 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and re-imposed the sanctions that had been lifted under the accord.
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