“No threat of new sanctions will stop our legitimate and mutually beneficial cooperation with Iran,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Ryabkov noted that the parties “have long lived under the conditions of the application of US sanctions” against Russia and during this time they have seriously adapted themselves to “such illegal use” of the United States.
According to him, therefore, Russia “perceives this kind of threat calmly” and will systematically develop cooperation with Iran, “including in the atomic energy sector” in full compliance with international norms and the laws of the two countries.
Earlier, the US State Department said that the United States could begin to impose sanctions for expanding nuclear power plants in Bushehr in Iran and for exporting enriched uranium from Iran in exchange for uranium ore.