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New US sanctions show unwillingness to engage in talks: Iran FM
US sanctioned Iran's largest petrochemical holding group on Friday for indirectly supporting IRGC
Gamal El Bana Published in Daily News Egypt on 27 - 06 - 2019

Additional sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States show that Washington's offer of talks is not genuine, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Abbas Mousavi, said on Saturday.
The US sanctioned Iran's largest petrochemical holding group on Friday for indirectly supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a step it said aimed to dry up revenues to the elite Iranian military force but that analysts called largely symbolic.
US President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he would be willing to talk to the Islamic republic.
"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 in a statement. "The American policy of maximum pressure is a defeated policy."
Tensions have risen between Iran and the US in recent weeks after Washington sent more military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what US officials call Iranian threats to US troops and regional interests.
The US aims to intensify economic and military pressure on Iran because of its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes as well as its support for proxy groups in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen.
US President Donald Trump antagonised Iran, and dismayed key US allies, last year when he exited a 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers under which Tehran curbed its nuclear programme in return for an easing of most international sanctions.
Trump denounced the deal, signed before he took office, as flawed and re-imposed tough financial sanctions on Iran were subsequently extended to its lifeblood oil exports.
Trump said on Thursday that Iran was failing as a nation, under the pressure of his sanctions, and repeated his call for talks with the leadership in Tehran. Mousavi on Friday dismissed Trump's comments as "repetitive, groundless, and paradoxical" and said they did not merit a response.

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