Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television that US sanctions had created difficulties including a weaker rial currency that has fed into higher inflation. Rouhani said he had ordered the ministries of foreign affairs and justice “to file a legal case in Iranian courts against those in America who designed and imposed sanctions on Iran”. If the Iranian court finds against the US officials, Iran will pursue the case in international courts of justice, the president said. Iranian complaints about sanctions in the international courts have occasionally succeeded. Trump said when he pulled out of the landmark 2015 deal that lifted international sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its atomic activities that it failed to rein in Iran’s missile program or curb its regional meddling.

Source: bd News24 March 18, 2019 09:22 UTC