Iran warns US of 'consequences' if economic war continues
Tehran (KNA) - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has described new US sanctions against Iran as "economic terrorism," warning of “consequences" if the US keeps up its pressure against the Iranian nation.
In an exclusive interview with ABC news on Sunday, Zarif said Washington's maximum pressure policy "targets ordinary Iranian people" and that Iran will respond in self- defense.
"If the United States decides to cause so much pain on the Iranian people by imposing economic warfare, by engaging in economic terrorism against Iran, then there will be consequences," he said without elaboration.
"We don't differentiate between economic war and military war," Zarif added.
"The US is engaged in war against us, and a war is painful to our participants. We have a very clear notion that in a war, nobody wins. In a war, everybody loses, [but] the loss of some will be greater than the loss of others."
Asked if the consequences he was referring to was the equivalent of the phrase used by American officials that "all options are on the table," Zarif said, "All options are on the table belongs to the time when the use of force was legal, and that is about 100 years ago."
"What we say is that we exercise our self-defense. Self-defense is allowed. President Trump has announced that he is engaged in a war and economic war against Iran, and we have an obligation to defend our people against that economic war," Zarif explained.
Zarif stressed that Trump will fail to "achieve his policy objectives through pressure on the Iranians."
Source: PressTV