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 TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said that oil sanctions on the Islamic Republic cannot be implemented. Ramin Mehmanparast made the remarks during a televised interview broadcast live on Jaam-e-Jam TV network on Tuesday night. The United States imposed additional sanctions on Iran last month, and the European Union is expected to agree a ban on imports of Iranian oil later this month, according to Reuters. European Union governments agreed on Tuesday to bring forward a planned meeting of foreign ministers expected to decide on an oil embargo on Iran by one week to January 23. Mehmanparast said, “We are the world’s fourth largest oil producer and have the second largest gas reserves in the world. A country with such energy wealth cannot be eliminated from the world where energy is the driving engine of countries.” Talks of imposing sanctions on Iran’s oil industry are “political games”, he stated. “They say: ‘We will impose sanction on Iran so that the government will not get the oil revenue so that we can put the Iranian government under pressure for six months and overthrow the governing system of Iran, and we would let the oil flow again with (the help of) the system that would rise to power and would be subservient to us’,” Mehmanparast added.
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