Malaysia to America: We do not recognize the sanctions against Iran

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, a senior Malaysian official requested the American delegation to intensify sanctions against He rejected Iran and said that Kuala Lumpur does not recognize unilateral sanctions imposed on countries.

A delegation from the US Department of Treasury headed by “Brian Neslon”, assistant secretary of the treasury, has left for Kuala Lumpur since Tuesday. Washington claims that Iran is getting help from companies based in Malaysia to sell its embargoed oil in the region. “Saifuddin Nasution bin Ismail”, the Minister of Interior of Malaysia, said after meeting with Brian Nelson in Kuala Lumpur that in ” A good and friendly meeting” told the American side that Malaysia only recognizes the sanctions of the Security Council against other countries.

Saifuddin said: “What I would like to emphasize here is that I was able to use a tone Well, let me convey our message about sanctions to the American delegation. Our position is that we only recognize the sanctions imposed by the Security Council.”

The Minister of the Interior of Malaysia further added: “We do not recognize the unilateral sanctions imposed by one country. The American delegation respected our position.” Before traveling to Malaysia, Brian Nelson had claimed that Iran’s government finances its allies through Southeast Asia by collecting funds and “illegal oil sales”. He said that Washington has witnessed the transfer of Iranian oil through companies based in Malaysia and near Singapore to the entire region. Last December, the US Treasury Department accused several companies based in Malaysia of supporting the Islamic Republic’s drone program. Iran had imposed sanctions, but analysts have said that Washington’s sanctions have not been able to prevent other parties from doing business with Iran.

A Malaysian analyst says that Nelson’s visit to Malaysia was made with a kind of “intimidation and threat tactics” but ” The United States does not want to lose the support of Malaysia, which is one of its important partners in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), especially considering that Malaysia is going to assume the presidency of ASEAN next year. div class=”markup-container readmore-container”>Iran sanctions 25 American and British individuals and organizations