US, Iran keep up hostile rhetoric ahead of new sanctions

Channel News Asia·August 22, 2026 at 4:03 AM

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Iran's foreign ministry said that the imminent US announcement of new economic sanctions on Iran was an "assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent member state of the United Nations."

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