The United States depends on sanctions against Iran

The United States has been severely criticized internationally for reintroducing sanctions against Iran. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday spoke of an "illegitimate" action. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the US sanctions a destabilizing measure, even though his country had obtained an exemption for importing Iranian oil.

"For us, these are sanctions that aim to override the global equilibrium," Erdogan said, according to a report by the Anadolu agency. Lavrov said US ultimatums and policies are unacceptable. Russia and other states, which signed a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 and lifted existing sanctions against Tehran, will work to continue working with Iran, Lavrov said. A spokeswoman for British Prime Minister Theresa May said: "We regret the reinstatement of US sanctions."

The government in Tehran itself was combative. Deputy Foreign Minister Sejed Kasem Sadschadpur said that Iran would not be forced to negotiate with a knife at the nape of the neck. The United States has the idea "naive very simple" that the pressure will weaken Iran. "The badumption is that we will cut the money on oil, then that Iran will be penalized, that the Iranian people will rebel, that the system will change and that everything will be fine for that paradise come. " the reality of Iran and the realities of foreign policy, "he said.

The United States has fined more than 700 people, organizations, planes and ships from Iran or Iran. Among them are surprising items such as the oil tanker Sanchi crashed in China in January, the closed Tat Bank of Iran Air and the Boeing 747 in 2012. The airline has put out of service Jumbo jets built in the 1970s .

Foreign Minister Javad Sarif is making fun of these obsolete publications on the sanctions list. "The United States has called a bank that closed six years ago and a ship that sank into a largely televised saga," he wrote on Twitter. Sanctions are a "hopeless" psychological trick.

The purpose of the sanctions is above all the oil industry, which is so important for the country. Only the states of China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Greece and Turkey have been authorized by Washington. For now, the consequences of importing Iranian oil are without consequences. Japan welcomed the waiver granted by the United States, Cabinet Secretary-General Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday. And South Korean Trade Minister Kim Hyun Chong said the exemption had allowed the refining industry in his country to breathe.