MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. Countries subjected to unlawful sanctions may form a community to devise countermeasures and impose retaliatory sanctions, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said as he answered journalists’ questions following his visit to Iran.

Iranian Justice Minister Amin Hossein Rahimi put forward a corresponding initiative several years ago at the St. Petersburg Legal Forum, he noted.

"I think we can discuss the idea of creating some sort of treaty, or at least a platform, where states subject to sanctions could formulate positions on how to counter them, or perhaps even introduce counter-sanctions. This applies to Russia and Iran; China is now facing sanctions, and there are other countries against which the United States and the European Union have imposed sanctions," Medvedev said, adding that such restrictions are illegal, "meaning they must be resisted.".