Medea Benjamin said the U.S. pressure on different world countries to stop doing trade with Iran and buy its oil are unjustifiable: "The US pressure on [Iran's] oil clients has no legal justification, and the U.S. can only get away with this because it’s a superpower. It can blackmail other countries because the dollar is so key to international financial transactions." Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the Code Pink organization and a contributor to several news websites, including The Huffington Post. In 2000, she was the Green Party candidate in California for the United States Senate, but didn't make it to the Congress. An outspoken opponent of the Iraq war and a vocal critic of the U.S. military interventions in the Middle East, Medea Benjamin disrupted an event hosted by the Hudson Institute on 19th of September this year where the U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook was speaking, to voice her anger at the U.S. policies on Iran. In an exclusive interview with ODVV, Ms. Benjamin shared her views about the ongoing spat between Iran and the United States and the human impact of the U.S. sanctions.