Dubai
\nIranian President Hassan Rouhani predicted a \u201cdeluge\u201d of drugs, refugees and attacks on the West if US sanctions weaken Iran\u2019s ability to contain them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI warn those who impose sanctions that if Iran\u2019s ability to fight drugs and terrorism are affected … you will not be safe from a deluge of drugs, asylum seekers, bombs and terrorism,\u201d Rouhani said in a speech carried live on state television.<\/p>\n
Separately, Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying that the United States is selling more arms into the Middle East than the region needs, making it a \u201ctinderbox\u201d.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a multilateral nuclear deal with Iran in May and reimposed sanctions on Iran\u2019s vital oil industry last month.<\/p>\n
Drug trafficking is a serious challenge for Iran as it borders Afghanistan the world\u2019s largest opium producer and Pakistan, a major transit country for drugs.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Iran accounted for two thirds of the world\u2019s opium seizures and one fourth of the world\u2019s heroin and morphine seizures, a UN report published in 2014 showed.<\/p>\n
\u201cEconomic terrorism means creating horror in a country and create fear in other countries that intend to invest .<\/p>\n
America\u2019s withdrawal from the is undoubtedly a clear example of economic terrorism,\u201d Rouhani told a meeting of heads of parliaments of China, Russia, and four other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dubai Iranian President Hassan Rouhani predicted a \u201cdeluge\u201d of drugs, refugees and attacks on the West if US sanctions weaken Iran\u2019s ability to contain them. \u201cI warn those who impose sanctions that if Iran\u2019s ability to fight drugs and terrorism are affected … you will not be safe from a deluge of drugs, asylum seekers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49536,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions\/49536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}