The most recent sanctions only added to the existing tensions between Tehran and Washington, which have been severely exacerbated by the US military build-up in the region, including the deployment of an additional 1,500 troops, B-52 bombers, and a US aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has slammed the most recent American sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic as a vivid example of US claims of willingness to hold negotiations with Iran being nothing but a play to the gallery.
“It was only necessary to wait one week until the claim of the president of America about talks with Iran were proven to be hollow”, Mousavi said.
He further dismissed the US strategy of “maximum pressure” on Iran through sanctions as a “defeated policy”, noting that previous administrations had already tried to undermine the Islamic Republic using this approach, but with little success.
