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TEHRAN: Iran called on the rest of the world on Sunday (September 20) to unite against the United States, after Washington unilaterally declared that UN sanctions against the Islamic republic were back in effect.
“We hope that the international community and all the countries of the world will oppose these reckless actions of the regime in the White House and speak with one voice,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said at a press conference in Tehran.
Washington has said it will “impose consequences” on any country that does not comply with the sanctions, although the United States is one of the only nations that believes they are in force.
“The whole world is saying that nothing has changed,” Khatibzadeh said, adding that the sanctions were in effect only in the “imaginary world” of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“This is much ado about nothing, and I think these are the bitter days and hours for America,” he added.
Calling Washington “isolated” and “on the wrong side of history”, Khatibzadeh said Tehran’s message was “to return to the international community, to its commitments, stop rebelling and the world will accept it.”
According to Pompeo, the UN sanctions were back in effect on Sunday.
The move is based on the controversial “rollback” mechanism, which the United States claims allows any of the partners in the 2015 nuclear deal to reimpose UN sanctions if Tehran violates its obligations.
