Trump move

LONDON (Reuters) – Iran could not help its co-operation with the US nuclear watchdog, President Hassan Rouhani told the body's head on Wednesday, after he warned U.S. President Donald Trump of "consequences" of fresh sanctions against Iranian oil sales.

In May, Trump pulled out of a multinational deal under which sanctions on Iran The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has verified its status as a nuclear program. Washington has since told countries they must stop buying Iranian oil from Nov. 4 or face financial measures.

Iran, Iran, Iran IRNA quoted Rouhani as saying after meeting IAEA head Yukiya Amano in Vienna.

"The responsibility for the change of Iran's cooperation with the IAEA falls on those who have created this new situation," he added.

Rouhani said earlier in the day Tehran would stand firm against U.S. threats to cut Iranian oil sales.

"The Americans say they want to reduce Iranian oil exports to zero … It shows they have not thought about its consequences," Rouhani was quoted as saying by IRNA.

On Tuesday, Rouhani hinted at a threat to disrupt oil shipments from neighboring countries.

He did not elaborate, but an Iranian Revolutionary Guards would be forced to control the price of crude oil in the United States.

"If they want to stop Iranian oil exports, we will not be allowed to go through the Strait of Hormuz," Ismail Kowsari was quoted as saying by the Young Journalists Club (YJC) website.

Major-General Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force, in charge of foreign operations for the Revolutionary Guards, said in a letter published on IRNA: "I kiss your (Rouhani's) hand for expressing such wise and timely comments, and I am at your service to the Islamic Republic. "

" SELF HARM "

Rouhani, in Vienna trying to salvage the nuclear deal, said US sanctions were a" crime and aggression ", and called on European and other governments to stand up to Trump.

"Iran will survive this round of U.S. sanctions as it has survived them before. This U.S. government will not stay in office forever … But they will do today, "he said.

Rouhani told reporters that the remaining signatories – the Europeans Britain, France and Germany as well as China and Russia – can guarantee Iran's benefits: "Iran will remain in the nuclear deal with the United States."

Iran's OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, said on the Iranian oil ministry news agency SHANA:

"Trump's demand that Iranian oil should not be bought, and (his) pressures on European firms at a time when Nigeria and Libya are in crisis, when Venezuela's oil exports have fallen to US sanctions, when it's nothing but self harm.

"It will increase the prices of oil in the global markets," he said. "The European Union," Iran's biggest oil import, "has been kept alive by the United States by trying to keep it. Iran's oil and investment flowing. Purpose European officials acknowledge that U.S. sanctions make it difficult to give Tehran guarantees.

Iranian officials in Vienna to meet the agreement alive.