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TEHRAN, May 14 (Xinhua) — The U.S.’s new sanctions against Tehran are in conflict with bilateral nuclear talks, Iran’s ISNA News Agency reported, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said at the 36th Tehran International Book Fair in the Iranian capital on Tuesday, commenting on the U.S.’s imposition of new sanctions against Iran amid indirect talks between the two countries brokered by Oman.
He criticized US officials for making “contradictory” statements about the goals they seek to achieve in the talks, stressing that the other side should “organize its thoughts” and refrain from making contradictory statements.
E. Baghaei noted that Iran’s positions are “resolute, clear and unchangeable” in the talks, adding that Iran approaches the talks with all seriousness, since “we have always negotiated with the aim of achieving results, and not using them as a tool to waste time.”
He stressed that in the negotiations, Iran seeks to preserve its nuclear achievements, “based on national needs,” and also to achieve the lifting of the “cruel” sanctions imposed on the Iranian people.
On Monday, the US State Department announced sanctions against three Iranian individuals and one Iranian entity “associated with the Defense Research and Innovation Organization of Iran.”
The new sanctions came as Iranian and US delegations held a fourth round of proximity talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme and the lifting of US sanctions in the Omani capital Muscat on Sunday.
The first and third rounds took place in Muscat on 12 and 26 April, and the second in Rome on 19 April. –0–