{"id":7134,"date":"2026-08-24T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:25:06","slug":"fm-downplays-trump-economic-warfare-as-old-us-bullying-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/fm-downplays-trump-economic-warfare-as-old-us-bullying-tactic\/","title":{"rendered":"FM downplays Trump economic warfare as \u2018old US bullying tactic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\">Iran&#8217;s foreign minister dismissed Trump&#8217;s new economic sanctions as &#8220;old bullying tactics&#8221; and a &#8220;recurring scenario&#8221; Tehran knows how to counter, while the country&#8217;s top security official vowed to neutralize the US economic war and respond to any nation that joins Washington&#8217;s campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tehran-IranView24<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Trump\u2019s economic pressure campaign against Iran is part of Washington\u2019s longstanding \u201cbullying\u201d tactics.<br \/>\n\u201cEconomic warfare is a recurring scenario and the same old bullying tactic in American policy,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a familiar movie that we\u2019ve seen many times, and we know how to deal with it,\u201d Araghchi said on the sidelines of a visit by the cabinet ministers to the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini.<br \/>\nHe said Washington\u2019s renewed use of military threats and claims of possible attacks showed that it was \u201cdesperate in the face of the Iranian nation\u201d and had \u201cno new solutions\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThey must know that there is no other way but to speak respectfully to the Iranian people and find a solution based on justice and honor,\u201d the Iranian foreign minister said.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump announced new economic measures against Iran on Wednesday, accompanied by a warning that countries maintaining economic engagement with Tehran would face consequences.<br \/>\nTrump said on his Truth Social platform that he was announcing \u201cthe most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country!\u201d<br \/>\nHe added that any country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face tremendous economic consequences.<br \/>\nIran\u2019s top security chief said that the Islamic Republic will neutralize the US economic pressure, including by responding to countries that join an American \u201ceconomic war\u201d against the country.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will neutralize the economic war. America is backed into a corner. Either they honor their commitments, or they will have to struggle to get out of that corner, which will make the situation worse,\u201d Secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei said during a televised interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s foreign minister dismissed Trump&#8217;s new economic sanctions as &#8220;old bullying tactics&#8221; and a &#8220;recurring scenario&#8221; Tehran knows how to counter, while the country&#8217;s top security official vowed to neutralize the US economic war and respond to any nation that joins Washington&#8217;s campaign. Tehran-IranView24 Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Trump\u2019s economic pressure campaign against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","category-foreign-policy","category-most-viewed-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}