'US bullying not unfamiliar to anyone here': Iran FM Abbas Araghchi at BRICS meet

New Delhi: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday made a pointed attack on the United States at the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting here, accusing America of "bullying" and cautioning against what he described as the behaviour of "empires in decline".

Addressing BRICS Foreign Ministers here, Araghchi said countries across the world were increasingly recognising that "regional instability is a lose-lose proposition for all sides, including the aggressors."

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"Those who pursue reckless adventures may believe it furthers their geopolitical interests. But as consumers and governments around the world now sense and understand, regional instability is a lose-lose proposition for all sides, including the aggressors," he said.

Araghchi on his maiden visit to India since the war said Tehran's resistance against "US bullying" was a struggle many countries in the room could relate to.

"To virtually everyone in this room, our resistance against US bullying is not an unfamiliar battle. So many of us encounter slight variations of the same repugnant coercion," Araghchi said.

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Calling for closer coordination among BRICS members, he said it was "high time" for countries to work together and make it clear that such practices "belong in the dustbin of history".