{"id":383348,"date":"2018-11-02T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-sanctions-a-symptom-of-weakness\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:24:34","slug":"us-sanctions-a-symptom-of-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-sanctions-a-symptom-of-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions &#8216;a symptom of weakness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s envoy to the United Nations says the United States is making waves on the scene of international trade by targeting other countries with unilateral sanctions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfronting multilateralism by resorting to unilateral actions, including imposition of embargo and sanctions, is not a sign of strength,\u201d Gholam-Ali Khoshroo said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, it is a symptom of the weakness of intellect &#8212; it betrays an inability in understanding a complex and interconnected world,\u201d he told a UN General Assembly session to discuss a draft resolution over ending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/11\/02\/578779\/UN-Cuba-US-sanctions-removal\">US sanctions against Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador cited the cases of Washington\u2019s sanctions against the Latin American country and the Islamic Republic, and how the bans had come to trouble trade on the international level.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u00a0embargo on Cuba \u201cviolates the United Nations\u2019 Charter as well as the international law and constitutes an obstacle for international cooperation,\u201d he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/02\/578804\/Iran-United-States-sanctions-Cuba\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s envoy to the United Nations says the United States is making waves on the scene of international trade by targeting other countries with unilateral sanctions. \u201cConfronting multilateralism by resorting to unilateral actions, including imposition of embargo and sanctions, is not a sign of strength,\u201d Gholam-Ali Khoshroo said on Thursday. \u201cRather, it is a symptom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}