Iran slams Donald Trump over sanction on 6 Indian companies: ‘Coercive, discriminatory actions violate…'
'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,' the Iranian Embassy said in a post on X.
'These coercive discriminatory actions violate the principles of international law and national sovereignty, representing a modern form of economic imperialism. Resisting such policies is a stand for a more powerful emerging non Western-led multilateral world order and a stronger Global South,' it added.
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