The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Iran condemned the new sanctions that the US has imposed on a number of Iranian news agencies, SİA informs, citing Tasnim News Agency.
In a statement on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned the US and its allies for imposing a slew of fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic over the country's defense of its security and nation in the face of Western-backed riots that spread throughout the country last year.
On Friday, the United States, the UK, and the European Union sanctioned dozens of Iranian individuals and entities, whom they accused of either suppressing or misrepresenting last year's unrest.
Kanaani denounced the sanctions as "unconstructive behavior," which was not in line with the Western countries' own interests.
The West, he added, rather had to adopt "a new policy based on respect for the great and civilized Iranian nation, the Islamic Republic's sovereignty, and the two sides' common security and interests."
Referring to the Western sanctions and accusations faulting Iran's riot response, Kanaani asserted that, when it comes to the provision of public security for the country, the Iranian people and authorities "would not be influenced by the Western parties' malicious propaganda and measures."
He, meanwhile, reminded the Western states of their own dismal rights records, identifying them as "countries, which continually perpetrate the most severe instances of violence against their own citizens, especially women, and also minorities, people of color, aboriginals, and migrants."
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