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TEHRAN, May 05 - Russia wants to strengthen cooperation with Iran, including in the nuclear sphere, despite the threat of US extraterritorial sanctions, according to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - "No threat of new sanctions will stop our legitimate and mutually beneficial cooperation with Iran. We have been living under US anti-Russia sanctions since 2012. It is clear that over this period there has been a serious adaptation to this illegal trick by the United States," Ryabkov told Sputnik news agency.
Iran has an even bigger experience on how to live under US sanctions, the Russian deputy foreign minister noted.
"Therefore, we perceive threats of this kind calmly, we do not succumb to blackmail and we will systematically expand and develop our cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran, including in the atomic energy sector in full compliance with international law and the national legislation of our countries, regardless of what US colleagues are undertaking, realizing, as they believe, their right to the extraterritorial application of their national legislation," Ryabkov stressed.
Sergei Ryabkov's remarks follow US Department of State spokesperson's announcement made on Friday that the United States may impose sanctions against actors providing assistance to expand Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant starting on 4 May.
Iran reached a deal with Russia on the first stage of the Bushehr project — the Bushehr 1 — in 1992. In 2014, Russia and Iran signed an agreement to build the second and third reactors for the Bushehr plant, Sputnik reported.
On 22 April Trump administration took its last step to zero Iran's oil exports. The White House has announced that since May 2, there has been no extension of any exemption for countries willing to buy Iranian oil.
Iran's nuclear deal with the G5+1 group of countries including Britain, France, Russia, China, the United States and Germany was implemented in January 2016, but the United States repeatedly showed its unwillingness to implement the multilateral accord. It eventually withdrew from the JCPOA on 8 May 2018, leveling repeated bogus accusations against Iran and reinstating anti-Iran sanctions.
Following the unilateral and illegal withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, the European countries called for the international agreement to be maintained, and they also urged Iran to comply with the agreement, despite America's abrogation of the agreement.
Source: Iran Press
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