Iran says any new US sanctions against the Islamic Republic could spoil the ongoing talks aimed at securing a long-term deal over Tehran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny further anti-Iran bans by the US could lead to a halt in the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 group\u201d,\u00a0says Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham\u00a0in press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is totally clear [that] using a worn-out tool which has been evidently proved ineffective is not helpful,\u201d<\/em> the Iranian official said, adding it is a \u201cmiscalculation\u201d by certain US officials that sanctions have brought Tehran to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n Afkham described the disputes over Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear work as \u201cfabricated\u201d and said Tehran is determined to settle the issue through realism.<\/p>\n A \u201crealistic\u201d approach can help the achievement of a comprehensive deal over Tehran\u2019s nuclear activities, Afkham added.<\/p>\n Her remarks came in reaction to reports that the new Republican-controlled US Congress is considering a new sanctions bill against Iran over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n Reacting to a severe drop in oil prices over the past months, Afkham said oil should not turn into a political tool, adding that all countries, especially oil producers, will be the ones to suffer from slumping prices.<\/p>\n \u201cIf oil, which is an economic issue, turns political then countries themselves will get harmed,\u201d<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n This comes as Iran and the P5+1 states, Russia, China, France, Britain and the US plus Germany,\u00a0are set to start a new round of talks on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program in the Swiss city of Geneva on January 18.<\/p>\n Press TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran says any new US sanctions against the Islamic Republic could spoil the ongoing talks aimed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[30,108,21,7],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-iran","tag-nuclear","tag-oil","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iran-Marzieh-Afkham.jpg?fit=650%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}