Iran’s top diplomat decries United States ‘coercion’

Also Zarif stated that extremism threatens the entire planet, not just a single region, and Iran is ready to fight this common enemy. While sanctions may have helped bring Iran to the negotiating table, it’s not clear that holding out for a better deal, while keeping sanctions in place, would have continued to restrain Iran’s nuclear program.

In an hour-long conversation with at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Bush argued that the Iran nuclear deal has emboldened Iran in a way that has allowed them to up their game on the non-nuclear front without indicating a change in behavior.

Addressing a session on social entrepreneurship in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday evening, he outlined Iran’s views on major economic and political issues and answered to questions posed to him by participants who were mainly big industrial names and economic activists. Jazayeri’s comments come after an announcement Sunday that the USA will apply new sanctions on several actors supporting Iran’s ballistic missile program.

“We believe these sanctions are uncalled for”.

“It shows that the United States has an addiction which has been very hard for it to overcome”, Zarif said. Washington, he said, suffers from an “addiction to pressure, addiction to coercion, addiction to sanctions”.

Tens of billions of dollars worth of Iranian assets are now unfrozen and global companies that have been barred from doing business there will be able to exploit a market hungry for everything from vehicles to aircraft parts.

The United States on Sunday imposed sanctions against 11 individuals and entities involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program as a result of Tehran’s firing of a medium-range ballistic missile.

This spat, The Statesman concluded, highlighted the tense relations, of late between the United States and Israel, mostly over Israel’s fierce objections to the Iranian nuclear deal.

Ali Khamenei congratulated Iran’s diplomats on Tuesday for making the “front of arrogance and bullying”-that would be the U.S.-retreat”. He put in a plug for Iran’s workforce and relative stability in a region riven with conflict including Yemen and Syria.

The bank chief said Iran will consider raising funds on worldwide debt markets in the future via a euro-denominated bond issue, though that’s “not one of our first priorities” and would be contingent on how much foreign direct investment the country can attract.

Indonesia appreciated the dialogue and the negotiation process between the two sides as they sought a peaceful solution and hoped that the plan of action could be implemented smoothly, based on the agreement.