Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has condemned new US economic sanctions against Iran, describing them as an attempt to impose extraterritorial sovereignty on other countries.

Axar.az reports that Baghaei made the remarks in a post on X.

“The United States’ declaration of new economic sanctions on Iran is far more than continued unlawful “economic warfare” against a single country. It is an assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent Member State of the United Nations,” he said.

Baghaei argued that Washington has no legal right to force foreign banks, companies or airports to stop lawful trade with third countries.

“Such secondary sanctions find no foundation in international law,” he said, adding that they violate the principle of sovereign equality enshrined in Article 2(1) of the UN Charter and breach the customary prohibition on intervention.

He further argued that economic coercion aimed at forcing a sovereign state to change its policy constitutes an “internationally wrongful act.”

“When combined with a naval blockade amounting to military aggression, these demands reduce the sovereignty of all other States to something provisional, conditional, and revocable at the whim of another power,” Baghaei said.

He warned that such measures could undermine state sovereignty and lead to “a recipe for an abysmal return to full-scale classic colonialism.”