Iran’s supreme leader branded a European initiative to protect trade from U.S. sanctions “a joke,” saying the country would have to rely on its own efforts to revive the economy.
“Europeans failed to stand against the U.S.” to protect the 2015 nuclear deal, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a live televised address from the northeastern city of Mashhad to mark the Persian new year. “They stabbed us in the back and we can’t expect them to do much.”
