Iran FM slams Western sanctions as 'hostile action,' state media says

Tehran, Iran — 

Iran 's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that caller Western sanctions against Iran were "hostile action" and would not assistance to resoluteness determination tensions, authorities media reported.

“The caller Western sanctions against Iran are considered a hostile enactment and volition not assistance the existing situation,” helium told reporters successful Jordan's capital, Amman, according to IRNA authorities quality agency.

On Monday, the 27-member European Union imposed sanctions connected salient Iranian officials and entities, including airlines, accusing them of taking portion successful the transportation of missiles and drones for Russia to usage successful its warfare against Ukraine.

Tehran has repeatedly denied the accusations.

Last week, the United States expanded sanctions connected Iran 's lipid manufacture successful effect to Tehran's October 1 onslaught connected Israel, which has vowed to respond.

Iran said the onslaught was successful retaliation for the sidesplitting of Tehran-aligned militant leaders successful the portion and a wide successful its Revolutionary Guards.

Regional tensions person soared since the outbreak of the Gaza warfare successful October past year, drafting successful Iran-aligned groups from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Iran was already reeling from crippling U.S. sanctions imposed pursuing Washington's unilateral withdrawal successful 2018 from a landmark atomic woody betwixt Iran and satellite powers.

Iran 's president Masoud Pezeshkian, who took bureau successful July, has prioritized reviving the deal.

On Wednesday, Araghchi said the alleged Muscat process of indirect negotiations with the United States connected atomic issues "has been halted for the clip being."

Oman has agelong mediated betwixt Iran and the United States, which chopped ties aft the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Araghchi said, however, that exchanges with the U.S. connected different issues are "still ongoing."