🔻Baghaei: The United States has replaced policy and reason with sanctions

Ismail Baghaei, the spokesperson of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says that “the United States has replaced policy and reason with an ill, addictive dependence on sanctions.”

The state news agency IRNA has written that Mr. Baghaei said this in response to remarks by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, and said the U.S. Treasury Secretary has boasted about efforts to “silence” Iran with “economic sanctions.”

Mr. Baghaei, in a post on the social media platform X, wrote: “Whenever Washington finds itself unable to pursue diplomacy, it resorts to sanctions; and since sanctions do not produce results, it simply increases their dosage.”