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By Reuters
The head of the Iranian government said on Saturday that President Donald Trump's policy was facing opposition in the world as Washington prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran's oil and financial export sectors, television reported. national.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said that Iran's main opponent, the United States, had not reaffirmed its dominance over Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution in the country that overthrew the Shah backed by the United States.
"The world opposes every decision made by Trump," Khamenei, quoted by Iranian television, told a meeting with thousands of students.
"America's goal was to restore its dominance (before 1979) but it failed.America has been defeated by the Islamic Republic in the last 40 years".
Washington will reintroduce Monday major sanctions on the vital sectors of Iranian banks and oil to try to force the Islamic Republic to negotiate to end its nuclear energy and ballistic missile programs and end its support to agents in conflicts in the Middle East.
The Trump administration, however, said Friday that eight importing countries would be temporarily allowed to continue buying Iranian oil when sanctions come into effect. Iran is the world's third largest exporter of oil.
Turkey said on Saturday that Ankara had received initial information from Washington granting it a waiver, but is awaiting clarifications on Monday.
Most of the international sanctions against Iran were lifted in early 2016 under an agreement signed the previous year by Iran with world powers, under which it was putting a brake to its uranium enrichment program, widely regarded abroad as a disguised attempt to develop an atomic bomb.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif spoke with Federica Mogherini, EU Foreign Policy Officer, and his German, Swedish and Swedish counterparts about the European measures taken. to counter US sanctions, reported the Iranian news agency IRNA.
"Mogherini and the European Ministers (…) stressed the importance of the Finance Ministers' commitment to the European Financial Mechanism to save the Iranian nuclear deal and declared that this mechanism would be operational in the coming days, "said IRNA.
Diplomats told Reuters last week that the new EU mechanism to facilitate the payment of Iranian exports should be legally in place by November 4, the date on which the next phase of US sanctions will be taken, but will only be operational at the beginning of next year.
The EU, France, Germany and Britain – all co-signatories of the nuclear deal with Iran – as well as Russia and China – have declared in a Joint communiqué Friday that they regretted Trump's decision to restore sanctions against Iran.
With the crackdown on sanctions, Trump is seeking to push Iran to stop uranium enrichment, as well as the development of its ballistic missiles and its support for alternative forces in Yemen, Syria in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.
"Iran (…) will not allow the Trump regime, which has made US foreign policy devoid of any principle, to achieve its illegitimate goals," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. a press release issued by IRNA.
Trump denounced the nuclear deal approved by his predecessor Barack Obama as unfavorable to Iran and pulled Washington out of the pact reached in May.
