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Iran slams new US sanctions amid nuclear deal uncertainty

The fresh sanctions targeted a network of Iranian firms over links to the Revolutionary Guards' missile program and came as an impasse in the nuclear deal talks drags on.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh.

The spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, dismissed new sanctions announced by the US Treasury against an Iranian national and his four companies connected to Tehran's missile program.

"It is yet another indication of the US government's ill intentions toward the Iranian nation," Khatibzadeh said in a statement on March 31.

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