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Iran’s foreign ministry said new sanctions on Iran, announced by the US government, show President Donald Trump’s calls for negotiations with the Islamic Republic are empty, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported.
“It only took one week for the emptiness of the US president’s claim of wanting negotiations with Iran to be shown. The American policy of maximum pressure is a failed one which successive US presidents have tried. This is a wrong path and the US government can be sure that it won’t fulfill any of its stated goals,†Abbas Mousavi, the spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, according to ISNA.
The US sanctioned Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company, Iran’s largest and most profitable petrochemical holding group, over what it said was the company’s support of the country’s revolutionary guard. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the move was a “warning†to show the US will continue to sanction companies that “provide financial lifelines†to Iran’s guard.