Tehran has condemned the latest US Treasury sanctions on Iranian targets over alleged oil shipments to Syria.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday that the latest sanctions were based on delusional excuses, adding Washington will realize such bans are “futile” and “illogical.”
“These futile, illogical and ineffective sanctions on people and entities will definitely not produce the results desired by their designers and enforcers,” he said.
“Sooner or later they (the Americans) will become aware of the futility of what they thought,” he added.
On Tuesday, Washington slapped fresh sanctions on a total of six people and three entities, accusing them of creating a complex web of Russian cut-out companies and Syrian intermediaries sebding millions of barrels of oil to Damascus, which in turn bankrolled Hezbollah and Hamas.
The blacklist included two executives at the Central Bank of Iran, a Russian, a Syrian, an Iraqi and a Lebanese national as well as an Iranian entity and two Russian ones.
The US considers the heavily armed Lebanese Hezbollah and Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, to both be terrorist organizations.
With the strict sanctions, the U.S. hopes to force Tehran to renegotiate a 2015 nuclear agreement that the Trump administration pulled out of in May.
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