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August 30th, 2014 
David Schulberg
“This move fully runs counter to the trend of the settlement of the nuclear issue,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said in a statement on Saturday.
She said that Iran dismisses any unilateral interpretation of the Geneva deal by the US and “strongly believes that the imposed sanctions are against the US undertakings based on the Geneva agreement”.
Stressing that the new sanctions will leave negative and unconstructive impacts on the trend of the nuclear talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), Afkham said, “Such measures question specially the seriousness, honesty and good will of the US and other parties to the negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran and bring uncertainty and doubt in their commitment to any possible final agreement which should certainly guarantee the removal of all illegal and illegitimate sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
She said that while Iran has taken confidence-building measures reflected in numerous reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran expects similar moves by the US and other G5+1 members and reserves its right to adopt reciprocal measures.
“The US and other members of the G5+1 which have kept mum on these explicit violations of the Geneva agreement are responsible for the consequences of this trend,” Afkham said.
“The era of using the inefficient tactic of pressure and negation is over and it is the time for the US to seriously and explicitly adopt a stable realistic approach to Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and show a steady practical attitude accordingly,” she added.
Her remarks came after Washington, once again, imposed a new wave of sanctions against Iranian companies and individuals despite the interim nuclear deal cut in November 24, 2013, between Tehran and the six major world powers.
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