DUBAI – Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign Minister recently mentioned that the world should stand against the United States’ use of sanction to exploit its will as a “bully”, or expect the same treatment itself.
However, all possibility of a military conflict with the U.S. was rejected by the elite Revolutionary Guards as a “bluff”.
An executive order allowing United States president Donald Trump to impose U.S. sanctions on anyone to violate an arms embargo against Iran was premeditated, sources said as the plan set to expire in October.
All United Nations sanctions on Iran have to be reinstated and the conventional arms embargo will no longer expire in mid-October says President Trump’s Administration in retaliation.
Hours before the United States’ moved to restore the United Nation’s sanction against Iran, Zarif told the Iranian state television that “The Americans as a rule act as a bully and impose sanction… The world community should decide how to act towards bullying, as they (other countries) will face the same thing tomorrow when America takes the same action towards the Nord Stream project, as well as other projects because a bully will continue to act as a bully if he is allowed to do it once.”
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is said to increase Europe’s reliance on Russian gas, is being opposed by many European countries and the United States as the sanctions were being discussed to be reinstated.
Semi-official news agency ISNA quoted Commander Hossein Salami of the Revolutionary guards who says, “No power, including the United States, has the conditions to impose a new war on the Iranian nation, so people should not worry about these exaggerated bluffs by the U.S. president.”
The statement came as a result of Salami reacting to a tweet that said any Iranian attack against the United States would be met by a response “1,000 times greater in magnitude” by the U.S. President Donald Trump.
Earlier in the year, U.A.E opened itself to Israel allowing business to move between the two countries which allowed Israel business ventures into the Arab world for the first time in history, putting Iran on high alert as it is pinned between Israel and UAE.
The sanctions posed a double-edged blade as business ventures anticipating the end of the sanctions to invest in the Persian country that had been locked away from the western world for as long as Iran’s first revolution against their former monarchs, the Shahs of Iran.
