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Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator
Saeed Jalili said Iran vowed Friday that its nuclear policy remained
"totally unchanged" after the United States imposed new sanctions on
Tehran. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran vowed Friday that its nuclear policy remained
"totally unchanged" after the United States imposed new sanctions on Tehran, the
official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili made
the remarks to reporters at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran upon his returning
from talks in Rome with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran's basic policy of
negotiations aimed at seeking new ways for cooperation and resolving the
outstanding issues with the UN nuclear agency and removal of misunderstanding
about national nuclear program remains totally unchanged," Jalili told the
reporters.
"Since we have lived under U.S. sanctions during the
past 28 years, this move was merely a new step in line with their former moves,"
he said.
Jalili's comments came after the United States
announced on Thursday that it is imposing new sanctions against Iran because
Tehran supports terrorism in the Middle East, exports missiles and is engaging
in a nuclear buildup.
The sanctions will be imposed against Iran's Defense
Ministry, its Revolutionary Guard Corps and more than 20 Iranian companies,
banks and individuals.
Under U.S. laws, any assets found in the United
States belonging to the designated groups must be frozen. Americans are also
forbidden from doing business with them.
The sanctions are believed to be the toughest
Washington has levied against Iran since the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Mohammad Ali
Hosseini on Thursday slammed the sanctions, saying the U.S. measures were doomed
to failure.
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U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson (L) and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walk to the podium before announcing economic sanctions on Iran to pressure it to halt its nuclear program, at the State Department in Washington Oct. 25, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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