Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Iranian television that “sanctions are the price that Russia and Iran pay for their sovereignty,” noting that “since the Soviet Union, various restrictions have been imposed on our country, which the total number of them , probably in the thousands, and these are limitations affecting different areas.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that “the allegations and accusations made by US President Joe Biden during his Middle East tour, including his statements at the Jeddah summit, are rejected and unfounded, and that these empty allegations come in the context of an ongoing U.S. policy of fomenting discord and sowing tension.” In the region,” he pointed out, noting that “the past of the United States as the country that was the first to use a nuclear country in the region, its occupation and military aggression, the wholesale sale of weapons and the promotion of militarization in the region.”