Moscow called the US sanctions against Rashatudi an “extraordinary situation”.
Reporting Mehr News Agency quoted by Sputnik, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, says that the recent US sanctions against Russian media and journalists are an “extraordinary situation”.
Zakharova said in response to the new American sanction against “Rashatudi” TV channel: Today the situation is extraordinary. Yesterday, Russian journalists in America were targeted by hostile action. Both as a (media) company and as a real person, they were attacked by an intelligence-terrorist attack.
He called the US sanctions an “attack on freedom of speech” and emphasized: In addition to the abusive and completely unjustified political statements that Washington made yesterday against this media (Rashatudi) issued, at the same time, physical assault was also carried out against journalists.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced yesterday that the country would impose new sanctions against three media companies and two individuals for what he called spreading lies in favor of Russia. did The US Department of Treasury also announced measures against this news network and Margarita Simonyan, the chief editor of this network.
The US foreign minister claimed that the staff of the Rashatoudi news network cooperates with the Russian intelligence apparatus in the fields of intelligence and military. He claimed that the United States placed these companies on its sanctions list after ensuring the interference of five Russian companies in the elections ahead of the United States. Blinken further asked the Kremlin to send the names of Russian media workers, including Rashatudi, to the US State Department.
