A member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said the legislative body has started talks with ambassadors of neighboring and Muslims countries in a bid to counter Washington’s new sanctions.
“Given the existing conditions and the unjust and unilateral US sanctions, the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has taken measures to improve cooperation with Muslim and neighboring countries and build friendlier relations to counter the sanctions,” Abolfazl Hassanbeigi told the Tasnim News Agency on Saturday.
Based on a decision taken by the presiding board, 23 members of the commission are meeting with envoys from 23 neighboring countries, as well as countries with which Iran wants to forge closer relations, he said.
Meetings are also scheduled to take place in the future with the ambassadors from Norway, Sweden, Spain, China, Japan, Russia, South Africa, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and Britain, Hassanbeigi said.
On May 8, the US president pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a nuclear agreement signed in Vienna in 2015 after two years of marathon talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (US, Britain, France, China, Russia plus Germany).
After Donald Trump withdrew, his administration moved to reimpose economic sanctions against Iran.
American authorities say the new sanctions will place “unprecedented economic pressure” on Iran and are seeking to impose sanctions against the countries that do not cut imports of Iranian oil by November 4.
