US sanctions against Iran are illegal: Analyst
The sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States are a flagrant violation of international law and other countries should not go along with it, says an American writer and political commentator.
American special envoy for Iran Brian Hook has said the United States will sanction any country that imports oil from the Islamic Republic and there are no exemptions in this regard.
"We will sanction any imports of Iranian crude oil... There are right now no oil waivers in place," Brian Hook said on Friday in London when asked about the sale of Iranian crude to Asia. He added that the United States would investigate reports of Iranian crude going to China.
American author and radio host from Chicago Stephen Lendman told Press TV in an interview on Saturday that the US sanctions on Iran were illegal because members of the United Nations Security Council had not approved them.
“Sanctions can only be imposed by Security Council members, never by nations against another nation, doing it is illegal,” Lendman pointed out.
He said it was now up to the international community to stand against this flagrant violation of international law.
“The US would never get away with what it is doing, if other nations -- if the world community -- obeyed international law, and refused to go along with what is flagrantly illegal,” Lendman pointed out .
Lendman said some countries like China and Russia had already refused the sanctions. “Some countries do refuse to go along.”
According to Lendman the countries that did go along were complicit in US crimes.
“They are breaking the law by doing it, and in my judgment, this makes them co-conspirators, ” he warned, adding, “They are guilty of breaking the law like the US”
Lendman said law-abiding nations should not comply with US sanctions. “They should not obey these sanctions,” Lendman reiterated.
On Monday, US President Donald Trump announced new sanctions against Iran, targeting the Leadership of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
Iran responded denouncing the US sanctions against Iran as a sign of weakness.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called the sanctions targeting the leadership of the Islamic Republic as “outrageous and idiotic.”
He also described the Trump administration as being retarded.
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