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Iran: US Sanctions Mean Permanent Closure of Diplomacy

Iran: US Sanctions Mean Permanent Closure of Diplomacy
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By Staff, Agencies

Iran said on Tuesday that new US sanctions targeting the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei and other top officials meant a “permanent closure” of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.

Iran said it would also impose sanctions on Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif later this week.

“Imposing useless sanctions on Supreme Leader [Sayyed Ali Khamenei] and the commander of Iran’s diplomacy [Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif] is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet.

He further stated that “Trump’s desperate administration is destroying the established international mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security."

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif responded in a Twitter post that hawkish politicians close to Trump “despise diplomacy, and thirst for war”. Last year, Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015 international accord to restrict Tehran’s pathway to a nuclear bomb and has since been ramping up sanctions to throttle the Iranian economy.

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