Iran is considering revising its financial and budgetary policies to remove oil income from them as a means to “counter Washington’s economic sanctions that constitute a case of terrorism,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday, as carried by the Iranian Fars news agency . Referring to the U.S. sanctions on its oil industry and exports as “economic terrorism,” Zarif said that “We will find ways for the welfare and comfort of our nation in these hard conditions, including revising the budget and financial policies to make them oil-free.” “They have opened economic war on our nation and we are also facing the Americans’ propaganda and attempts to spread hatred,” Fars quoted Zarif as saying during a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono as part of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Iran . Zarif’s words echo comments from Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, who said […]