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Iranian FM Spox: New Sanctions Show US Desperation Vis-À-Vis Iran

Iranian FM Spox: New Sanctions Show US Desperation Vis-À-Vis Iran
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By Staff, Agencies

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has condemned a fresh round of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying the "futile" and "empty" bans only reveal the desperation of Washington vis-à-vis Iran.

Mousavi made the remarks on Monday in reaction to the US Treasury's recent sanctions on nine people close to the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution including his chief of staff and the country's Judiciary Chief.

"The US regime's addiction to unilateral sanctions has put the regime's statesmen in a totally passive situation, in which they announce some empty sanctions every now and then in order to relieve themselves and escape the frustration caused by their failure against the Iranian nation's iron will," he said.

"Such measures only reveal the regime's desperation and inability to use diplomatic or logical solutions," the spokesman noted.

The US Treasury on Monday announced the new sanctions against the financial assets of what the US called the "inner circle of both military and foreign affair advisors” to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, a senior administration official said in a call with reporters to discuss the sanctions.

The US sanctions block any US-controlled property or interests held by those targeted, and prohibit anyone or any entities in the United States from dealing with those sanctioned.

Mousavi also slammed a statement by the White House released on November 4, 2019, on the anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, and described it as a "flagrant" move to distort the realities.

In the statement, Washington claimed that Tehran targets "innocent civilians for use as pawns" in its foreign relations, and vowed that it will continue to impose its "crippling" sanctions until Iran changes this and what it called its other "hostile" behaviors.

"Through propaganda and brouhaha and using an impolite and undiplomatic language, the White House always tries to distort the facts and the history by keeping open an already-closed case, which was settled 40 years ago through the Algiers agreements between the two states of Iran and the US," he noted.

"The US government cannot hide the crimes it committed against the Iranian nation from those in the 1953 coup and later through robbery, looting, murder, and economic terrorism, and replace the positions of the executioner and the victim," Mousavi added.

He said what the US administration has attributed to Iran is what the Iranian nation and other nations in the world demand from the US government.

"It is the US administration that must stop [supporting] terrorism, especially its support for the state-sponsored terrorism of the Zionist regime which loots other countries' resources, and also its piracy, economic terrorism, and other abnormal and unusual behaviors," he added, urging the US to choose a wise, civilized, and lawful path.

On Monday, Iranians held rallies in various cities to mark the 40th occupation anniversary of the former US embassy in Tehran, which gained notoriety as the "Den of Espionage" after angry students occupied the compound and recovered thousands of documents proving Washington's espionage activities there.

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