In a press conference, Saeed Khatibzadeh, whose words were reported by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, told the Biden administration that although Washington’s statements confirmed reconciliation,
The United States continues to seize every opportunity to unjustifiably accuse Tehran and put pressure on the Iranian people.
US Treasury Secretary Brian Nelson said the United States cracked down on several Iranian companies that supply Iran’s ballistic missile program on Wednesday as Shiite nations have struck a series of missiles in Iraq and elsewhere in recent weeks.
Erbil in Iraq came under a missile attack on March 13, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards reportedly subsequently attacked an Israeli strategic position there. In addition, Tehran supported twenty Yemeni rebels before and has since bombed several targets in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The sanctions have hit the head of Iran’s network of companies, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, who Washington says is the most important supplier of the missile programme. All potential US assets will be frozen and you will no longer have access to the US financial system.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said, on Wednesday evening, referring to the agreement on the Shiite state’s nuclear program, that Tehran would continue to hold “unrelenting and lively” talks in Vienna to revive the nuclear agreement, but added that no agreement had been reached yet. Link.
In a discussion with the religious scholars of Rashid Mashid, he noted that his country is open to dialogue with all countries, but that Iran has also learned not to “trust strangers.”
In 2015, Iran agreed – through the mediation of the European Union – with the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany to limit its nuclear program to at least ten years in exchange for the gradual removal of most sanctions imposed on it. With the comprehensive agreement, the international community wanted to ensure that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Former US President Donald Trump repeatedly protested against the deal and his country’s unilateral withdrawal from the multi-power nuclear deal in May 2018, saying he could not prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. He also ordered the lifting of US sanctions on Iran.
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