Senior parliamentary officials in Tehran warned on Saturday that Iran would stop negotiating with the world powers in case the US Congress approves any new sanction against the country.
"If the US or any member of the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) imposes a new sanction against Iran, it will be against the spirit of the negotiations and in that case the Islamic Republic of Iran will have reservations about continuing the talks," Rapporteur of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said.
Naqavi Hosseini blamed the US for the prolonged nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers, and said, "Washington should pave the way for reaching a final agreement by avoiding issues which are outside the framework of the nuclear talks."
He reiterated that Iran has specific redlines in the nuclear talks, and said, "The West should avoid making excessive demands from Iran."
In late December, Iran condemned Washington for adding nine individuals and entities to its Iran sanctions blacklist, stressing that the embargoes mean a negative move amid the talks underway between Tehran and the six world powers, including the US.
"We deplore the US administration's imposition of new embargoes on a number of other companies and people under the pretext of their partnership in purchasing the sanctioned goods and equipment, and we believe they violate the US undertakings under the Joint Plan of Action (Geneva agreement inked in November 2013 between Tehran and the Group 5+1)," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said in her weekly press conference in Tehran.