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New US sanctions meant to harass Iranian people: Analyst

Friday, 17 August 2018 1:54 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 17 August 2018 1:57 PM ]

US President Donald Trump (C) speaks as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan look on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 16, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

An analyst says that Washington’s sole purpose of maximizing economic and political pressure on Iran is “harassment of the Iranian people,” adding that such policy is “bordering on fascism and global dominance.”

“It is really sad to see the United States, which is the illegal actor in this whole affair, trying to and keep on doing all kinds of things which I would call warfare, suffocating a country with more than 80 million people, diplomatic isolation, telling in 12 points what a sovereign state of Iran must do to have the honor and privilege to work with the West,” Jan Oberg, political commentator and founder of transnational.org told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

“I wonder how long time Western allies and friends of the United States are going to go along with this. They seem to ignore the fact that it is the United States and not Iran who is breaking international law… So I hope that allies will finally find out that the country we ought to have sanctions against and we ought to pressure to behave decently is the United States and not Iran,” he added.