TIL Desk/World/Tehran/ Iran said on Tuesday new US sanctions on its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had permanently closed the door on diplomacy between the two sides and threatened global stability as Washington renewed efforts to build a global alliance against Tehran. In a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said US President Donald Trump’s “desperate” administration was killing the mechanisms for maintaining global peace by slapping bans on Iran.
“Imposing futile sanctions on Leader of the Islamic Revolution (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) and the commander of the country’s diplomacy (Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif) meant the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy with the desperate US government,” Mousavi tweeted. “Trump’s administration is destroying all the established international mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security,” he said.
Trump on Monday signed an executive order designating Khamenei in a new round of sanctions aimed at top Iranian leaders, including the Supreme Leader’s office and associates. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the US would also impose sanction on Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif “later this week”. The latter is widely hailed as the architect of a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal from which the US unilaterally withdrew in 2018.
