Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Friday brushed aside the latest US sanctions saying they would have no affect on the country's nuclear policies, the ISNA news agency reported.
"These sanctions are nothing new. Sanctions have been imposed on us for 28 years. The new sanctions, like all those before, will have no affect on Iran's policies," Jalili said at Tehran airport on his return from talks in Rome with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana. "The sanctions will only isolate the United States on the international stage," he said of the measures against Tehran, unveiled Thursday.
The US sanctions specifically targeted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, accused of spreading weapons of mass destruction, and the IRGC's elite Quds Force, which was labelled a supporter of terrorism.
Three Iranian state-owned banks were also blacklisted, along with IRGC-controlled companies and the logistics arm of Iran's defence ministry, as Washington stepped up a drive to squeeze Iran out of global banking.
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