MNA � Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said that United States uses dollar as a weapon.











He urged international community to stand against the US��wrong policy of�using the dollar as a weapon against independent governments.

He made the remarks on Thursday in the �International Seminar on Unilateral Coercive Measures�and Their Impacts�, held in the Austrian capital Vienna, during which he addressed�the US unlawful and unilateral�sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

He called on the international community to confront the US unilateralism�and emphasized, �the US��destructive behavior and economic terrorism�against the�should be stopped.�

Araghchi added, �with the violation of UN Security Council resolution and exertion of its illegal and unilateral sanctions, the US�has greatly jeopardized the sole achievement of diplomacy in the region.�

The �International Seminar on�Unilateral Coercive Measures�and Their Impacts��was held in the Austrian capital Vienna at the initiative�of political missions of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela and in the presence of Venezuelan and Iranian foreign ministers as well as some distinguished international figures.