Iran's president says US sanctions are 'terrorist act'
The Trump administration withdrew from an international nuclear deal with Tehran last May and reimposed sanctions lifted under the accord
London— Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday relations with the US had rarely been so bad and that sanctions imposed by the Trump administration targeting Tehran’s oil and banking sectors amounted to “a terrorist act”. Animosity between Washington and Tehran — bitter foes since Iran’s 1979 revolution — has intensified since US President Donald Trump withdrew from an international nuclear deal with Tehran last May and reimposed sanctions lifted under the accord. “The struggle between Iran and America is currently at a maximum. America has employed all its power against us,” Rouhani was quoted as saying in a cabinet meeting. “The US pressures on firms and banks to halt business with Iran is one hundred percent a terrorist act,” he said. Trump has reimposed the sanctions with the aim of slashing Iranian oil sales and choking its economy in order to curb its ballistic missile programme and its activities in the Middle East, especially in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen. I...
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