U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his country has imposed sanctions on Iran, including its central bank, as part of an additional package of sanctions that Washington has adopted on Tehran since the United States withdrew in May 2018 from the Iranian nuclear deal and returned economic sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear file. .
Trump said in a statement in the Oval Office that the sanctions "are the harshest ever against a country," noting that these sanctions were imposed in response to the attack on Saturday, two oil facilities belonging to Saudi Aramco in the east of the Kingdom, which caused the loss of Riyadh half Its oil production has caused panic in the global oil markets.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind the attacks, a charge Tehran denied.
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US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin said the Central Bank of Iran was the latest source of funding for Tehran. The US Treasury said the new sanctions also hit Iran's Etemad Tejjar, justifying it had facilitated remittances for military purchases for Iran's authorities.
Tehran described the series of sanctions imposed by Washington as "illegal economic terrorism and inhumane," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday criticized the US decision to impose additional sanctions on his country, saying that the decision escalation of the economic war on Iranian citizens.