# Iran’s top diplomat compares US sanctions to a movie seen many times before

https://mins.news/en/item/29825

- TASS, 2026-08-23 13:40 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2176671

> Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says President Donald Trump’s new sanctions repeat a familiar scenario that Iran knows how to withstand. He calls Washington’s anti-Iranian course doomed to fail and urges respectful dialogue, while Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemns the policy as “economic terrorism and a crime against humanity.”

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