Russia plans to stop buying electronic devices and components from the United States that can be used for both civilian and military purposes regardless of new U.S. sanctions, Russian lawmaker Alexei Kondratiev was quoted as saying on Thursday.

Turkey accused Washington on Wednesday of waging “economic war” and failing to respect its legal system over the fate of an evangelical Christian pastor whose 21-month-long detention on terrorism charges has roiled relations between the NATO allies, Reuters reported.

It seems that the White House is very serious in its intention to strangle Iran's economy, and President Trump's words that the new sanctions imposed on Tehran are the toughest sanctions that have ever been imposed, is not an empty rhetoric.

The United States launched an unprecedented campaign to limit the export of Iranian oil to the world markets, in order to deprive Tehran of multi-billion dollar revenues, thereby weakening the country's economy, and trying to encourage the Iranian leadership to make concessions in the nuclear agreement and in Iran's activities in the region, or even to overthrow the existing regime.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has unveiled a new Iran action group to coordinate and run Washington's policy toward Tehran in the wake of the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, Sputnik reported.

Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri rejected the possibility of any negotiation between the Islamic Republic and the US, saying that Washington is only following hostile policies against Tehran.

Turkey has increased tariffs on several U.S.-origin products, including alcohol and tobacco products and cars, according to a new presidential decree published early Wednesday in the official gazette, Turkish media reported.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic could overcome the new US sanctions with “better management and planning”.

The U.S. State Department said on Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had spoken with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over phone to discuss the recently announced U.S. sanctions on Russia and the bilateral ties, Xinhua reported.

The average US dollar exchange rate amounted to 348.14 tenges per dollar according to the results of the morning trading session on Aug. 8 at the Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), Kazinform reported referring to KASE.