Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Abdollahian said that Tehran recently presented a new initiative to revive the nuclear agreement, calling on US President Joe Biden to stop the policy of "maximum pressure", at a time when Washington imposed sanctions on what it said was an international network for oil smuggling and money laundering belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. .

Abdullahian added, before the World Economic Forum in Davos, that they have not yet reached the point in which they can trust the American side, and they are not convinced that its behavior has changed, and called on Washington to show the difference between the Biden administrations and the administration of former President Donald Trump, because the policy of maximum pressure is what Listed.

He stressed that they are serious about reaching a strong and sustainable nuclear agreement, pointing to keeping the door of diplomacy open.

The Iranian minister denounced the imposition of new sanctions on Iran by the US side despite Tehran's return to the nuclear agreement negotiations, stressing that the return to the 2015 nuclear agreement is linked to Iran's return to international economic activities.

For his part, the US envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, said that Washington seeks to return to the agreement "because it is in our interest, but if Iran tries to raise the ceiling of its conditions, we will reject that and we will not reach an agreement."

Mali explained that the prospects for reviving the nuclear agreement are weak at best, and stressed the US administration's readiness to impose and intensify sanctions on Iran in the event of no agreement being reached.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal said that Washington imposed sanctions on Russian companies accused of aiding the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and imposed sanctions on what it said was an international network for oil smuggling and money laundering led by officials in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and classified it Terrorist Organisation.

The US Treasury said that the network facilitated the sale of quantities of Iranian oil, from which the Quds Force and the Lebanese Hezbollah reaped hundreds of millions of dollars.

The ministry described the network as a critical element in collecting oil revenues for Iran.

In Iran, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said that the policy of imposing sanctions is an unjust policy and not a solution to problems, and that Iran has great experience in facing sanctions.