Iran: Trump’s economic threat paves the way for “return to full-scale classic colonialism”

Iran pushed back on US President Donald Trump’s threat of an “economic D-Day,” calling it “a recipe for an abysmal return to full-scale classic colonialism.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Friday the United States’ declaration of new economic sanctions against the country is an “assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent Member …