MNA Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said that United States uses dollar as a weapon.
He urged international community to stand against the USwrong policy ofusing the dollar as a weapon against independent governments.
He made the remarks on Thursday in the International Seminar on Unilateral Coercive Measuresand Their Impacts, held in the Austrian capital Vienna, during which he addressedthe US unlawful and unilateralsanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
He called on the international community to confront the US unilateralismand emphasized, the USdestructive behavior and economic terrorismagainst theshould be stopped.
Araghchi added, with the violation of UN Security Council resolution and exertion of its illegal and unilateral sanctions, the UShas greatly jeopardized the sole achievement of diplomacy in the region.
The International Seminar onUnilateral Coercive Measuresand Their Impactswas held in the Austrian capital Vienna at the initiativeof political missions of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela and in the presence of Venezuelan and Iranian foreign ministers as well as some distinguished international figures.