Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqayi has strongly condemned new US sanctions against Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad and some other entities and vessels involved in the country’s crude exports as a testament to Washington’s “infringement of the law and hypocrisy”, IRNA reported.
Baqayi’s remarks came a day after the US Treasury Department designated Paknejad and three entities engaged in Iran’s oil trade in China, and named three shipping vessels as blocked property for their use in the transactions.
Baqayi said the new bans refute the repeated claims by American officials about their readiness for negotiations and show the US hostility to the development, progress, and prosperity of the Iranian people.
