“The United States will continue to strive for a diplomatic solution that would solve the problem of the destructive behavior of the Iranian regime. The only way to move forward is to develop a comprehensive deal that would cover the whole range of such threats, ”RIA Novosti reports.
At the same time, Pompeo, in his Twitter, explained the imposition of sanctions against Zarif by the fact that the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry "was involved in the lawlessness of the regime" against the people of the country.
It became known earlier that the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions against Zarif.
In mid-July, Zarif called on Washington to renounce sanctions for further dialogue.
Orientalist Gumer Isaev, in an interview with NSN, explained Tehran’s decision to suspend the fulfillment of a number of obligations under a nuclear deal by an attempt to react under pressure from the United States.