Talking to IRNA on Tuesday, he said sanctions against Iran were not acceptable and the US should become aware of this. He also said that the US had to pay a lot to the people of Iran for supporting the Pahlavid regime which suppressed the nation for a quarter of a century. Stressing that the threats of military attacks against Iran by the US were meaningless, he said such a manner was rejected by both the US Constitution and the United Nations Charter. Clark believed that imposing harsh sanctions on the people of a country literally meant declaring war against that nation.