“Common sense prevailed. We ... understood that it probably would not help us, ”said the agency’s source.

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At the same time, he clarified that the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also spoke in support of this decision.

Earlier it was reported that Washington plans to impose sanctions against Zarif.

At the end of June, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the new United States sanctions imposed the day before against Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "forever close the path to diplomacy."