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Tuesday 27 October 2020 - 14:29
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Fresh bans show US hostility toward Iranians has no limit: Envoy

Iran says the US move to impose sanctions against already blacklisted entities shows the countrys hostility toward Iranian people has no limit.

US's hostility towards Iranian people has no limit. US is sanctioning entities that have already been sanctioned under other phony charges, AlirezaMiryousefi, the spokesman for Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations,tweeted on Tuesday morning.

His comments came after the administration of US President Donald Trump imposed a fresh round of sanctions on a number of Iranian individuals and entities affiliated with the Islamic Republics oil sector, including Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh.

TheUS Treasury Departmentmade the announcement in a statement on Monday, saying the sanctions targeted eight officials and entities as well as the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC).

In a tweet later on Monday, Iran's oil minister reacted to new US sanctions, saying that imposition of new bans "is a passive reaction to the failure of Washington's policy of reducing [Iran's] crude oil exports to zero."

In his Tuesday tweet, Miryousefi said the US' addiction to sanctions has not paid off, as [the US presidents national security advisor]Robert C. OBrienadmitted, US has out-sanctioned itself.

In comments on Sunday, OBrien had admitted that the US has out-sanctioned its ability to inflict more pain on Iranian people.

One of the problems we have with both Iran and Russia is that we have so many sanctions on those countries right now that there's very little left for us to do," he said.

In a tweet on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif quoted OBriens confession, and said its time for the US to finally admit it is a Sanction Addict.

Kick the habit. More economic warfare against Iran will bring the US lessand not moreinfluence, Zarif said.
NSA@robertcobrienjust admitted that U.S. has out-sanctioned its ability to inflict more pain on Iranian people.

Time for the US to finally admit it is a#SanctionAddict.

Kick the habit. More economic warfare against Iran will bring the U.S. lessand not moreinfluence.pic.twitter.com/jgAkE16Yoe

Javad Zarif (@JZarif)October 26, 2020
Later in the day, Zarif said in his address to the 75th UN General Assembly that the United Nations must stand up against the US unilateralism.

Our United Nations at 75 needs to recommit itself to stand upunitedagainst unilateralism and war, Zarifsaid.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations foundation, Irans Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the world has to reject unilateralism and coercion.

In a tweet, the Iranian ministry added that the UN was established 75 years ago with a shared vision of building a better world based on multilateralism & cooperation.

 

Source: Press TV
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