Tehran: US, Allies Expand of Sanctions Hostile, Futile Step
As US, UK, France and Canada announced new sanctions on Iran expanding them to target the supply of goods, services, technology, or support...to the Islamic Republic, Tehran condemned the step as "futile, repetitious efforts" and a "show of hostility by Western nations."
"These sanctions are futile repetitious efforts which will not affect Iran's economy," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in Tehran.
"Such illogical, intimidating moves are propaganda and psychological war which however will not change our nation's will but just make us more united," he stressed.
"Everybody knows our trade with Britain and the United States is at its lowest point. These past years we have decided for various reasons to reduce exchanges with those two countries to a minimum, so as to increase them with other countries," Mehmanparast said.
Similarly, Russia dismissed the new Western sanctions targeting Iran's financial and energy sectors as "unacceptable", warning that "such measures would hurt the chances of renewing talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.
"We again underline that the Russian Federation considers such extraterritorial measures unacceptable and contradictory to international law," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in the statement.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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