The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council proposed establishing a coalition of BRICS members to counter sanctions and ensure security in various fields on the basis of multilateralism and new order in cooperation with the Global South.

According to The Iran Project, Addressing a joint meeting of high-ranking security officials from BRICS and the Global South, held in Russia’s St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Ali Akbar Ahmadian shared the idea of creation of a coalition of BRICS states against sanctions.

He said it is necessary for the BRICS and the Global South countries to join hands to stand against the sanctions and ensure the economic, energy, food, financial, maritime, cultural, psychological, cyber, environmental, health and international security.

Collective action can allow the BRICS and the Global South nations to usher in structural changes and create effectual and modern institutions on the basis of new order, such as an anti-sanctions coalition, to establish economic, trade and financial security, provide financial supervision, and guarantee independent and non-political data governance, he added.