Iran slams new EU, UK sanctions as unjustified

TEHRAN, IRAN — 

Iran's Foreign Ministry connected Tuesday slammed arsenic unjustified the caller sanctions by the European Union and United Kingdom against Tehran implicit its enactment for Russia's warfare connected Ukraine.

"While the president of Ukraine has admitted that nary Iranian ballistic missiles person been exported to Russia, the measures of the European Union and United Kingdom successful applying sanctions against Iran cannot beryllium justified," ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said successful a statement.

Later Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of Hungary, which holds the rotating EU presidency, to protestation the caller sanctions.

The European Union connected Monday widened sanctions against Iran implicit its alleged enactment for Russia's warfare connected Ukraine, including targeting the nationalist seafaring company, vessels and ports utilized to transportation drones and missiles.

Acting successful parallel, the U.K. besides announced caller sanctions against Iran connected Monday, freezing the assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line.

The sanctions besides included the nationalist airline, Iran Air, for transporting ballistic missiles and subject supplies to Russia for usage successful Ukraine.

Iran has repeatedly rejected Western accusations that it has transferred missiles oregon drones to Moscow for usage against Kiev.

Ahead of the sanctions announcement, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday the EU was utilizing the "nonexistent rocket pretext" to people its shipping lines.

"There is nary legal, logical oregon motivation ground for specified behavior. If anything, it volition lone compel what it ostensibly seeks to prevent," Araghchi wrote connected X.

"Freedom of navigation is simply a basal rule of the instrumentality of the sea. When selectively applied by some, specified shortsightedness usually tends to boomerang," Araghchi wrote.

Iran's system is reeling from biting U.S. sanctions pursuing the unilateral withdrawal of Washington successful 2018 from a landmark atomic woody betwixt Iran and satellite powers.

Baghaei said the caller sanctions against Iran, which "affect the interests and cardinal rights of Iranians, are wide examples of systematic violations of quality rights."

"The Islamic Republic of Iran volition usage each of the capacities of practice with its partners to guarantee its interests and nationalist security," helium said.