The US Justice Department said on Monday that the country has seized a plane used by the Venezuelan president and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida. It claimed the jet-a Dassault Falcon 900EX- was bought in violation of US sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kan'ani said on Thursday that the "unilateral coercive US move runs against international law and will foment chaos, promote hijacking".
The US move also threatens international aviation security and safety, he added.
He earlier stressed that international regulations must be respected, having emphasized that Iran views the recent US move as an "unacceptable" contravention of the rules and norms of international law-particularly the immunity of countries' properties and the Convention on International Civil Aviation, better known as Chicago Convention.
Earlier, the Iranian spokesman supported the measures taken by the Venezuelan government to protect its public property.
Kan'ani also emphasized that the cooperations among countries should be developed to a more extensive way in order to counter the US sanctions and unilateral coercive measures.
Maduro, a former bus driver who became president after his mentor Hugo Chavez died in 2013, was re-elected in 2018 despite the opposition, which was orchestrated by the US.
Since November 2019, the US-led sanctions pushed inflation in Venezuela to over 4,000 percent.
Iran and Venezuela, both under illegal US sanctions, inked a 20-year cooperation deal back in June during a state visit to Tehran by Maduro. The document covered the energy sector among other areas of cooperation.
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