Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday that thwarting “draconian” US sanctions required new solutions, asserting that an expanding central Asian security organisation could help defy Washington’s unilateralism. Speaking at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, Raisi also called for an expansion of free trade among the SCO’s member countries, alongside financial and banking cooperation. “The SCO needs to adopt new solutions and take specific measures to counter draconian US sanctions and its unilateralism, such as sustainable trade among…