[News] EU surrenders sovereignty to US coercion, becomes accessory to economic terrorism

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EU surrenders sovereignty to US coercion, becomes accessory to economic
terrorism: Iran FM spokesman
Presstv
August 31, 2026
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*The European Union has surrendered its sovereignty, laws, values and
ethics to American coercion and turned itself into an accessory to
Washington’s lawless economic war against Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman
Esmaeil Baghaei has said.*

In a statement posted on his official X account on Monday night, Baghaei
pointed to the EU’s own Blocking Statute, which prohibits European
operators from complying with extraterritorial laws of third countries and
treats such measures as contrary to international law.

“How, then, can the Union now support the most predatory and unlawful
unilateral coercive measures against Iran?” he asked.

Baghaei contrasted today’s posture with 1996, when the EU resolved to act
independently in defense of its sovereignty against the American sanctions
regime and adopted the Blocking Statute.

“Today it has become an accessory to Washington’s lawless conduct,” he said.

The Union’s endorsement of America’s unlawful economic war constitutes a
grave violation of international law, the spokesman added. Every EU member
state will be held accountable for the consequences of its contribution to
this wrongful act.

“The European Union cannot endorse Washington’s economic terrorism against
Iran while claiming to seek de-escalation and regional stability. The two
positions are mutually exclusive,” Baghaei stated. “This irresponsible
stance is evidence of the EU’s moral decay and political incompetence.”

Iranian officials have repeatedly described US secondary sanctions and
naval blockade measures as economic terrorism and a violation of the UN
Charter’s principles of sovereign equality.

Tehran has long maintained that Europe’s failure to enforce its own
Blocking Statute against Washington’s extraterritorial dictates exposes the
gap between Brussels’ rhetoric on a rules-based order and its actual
conduct.

The statement comes as the Islamic Republic continues to reject any attempt
to impose terms of settlement through coercion and insists that the only
viable path out of the current crisis is a return by the United States to
the commitments it signed in the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding.

The Islamabad MoU, brokered with Pakistani mediation and signed in June,
provided for an immediate halt to military operations, the lifting of the
US naval blockade, Iranian arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz, a path
toward sanctions relief, and a $300 billion reconstruction framework.

However, the US violated the deal by conducting deadly aerial assaults on
Iran and imposing a naval blockade of the country.

Pakistan had previously played a pivotal role in securing the April 8
ceasefire that brought an end to the 40-day criminal US-Israeli aggression
against Iran.
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