Tehran 0
3 April 2019

Citing a news report on Iranian claims that U.S. sanctions were hampering flood recovery, and a second report indicating E3 concern over Iran's ballistic missile program, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif lamented that "a year after the U.S.' unlawful abrogation of the JCPOA, Europe can't muster political will to defy the U.S.' economic terrorism. Not even by setting up a single banking channel for humanitarian aid". The Europeans, Zarif added, "are instead busy appeasing President Trump by pressuring the UN over our defensive capabilities". 

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