TEHRAN – The spokeswoman for the Iranian administration here Saturday denounced new U.S. sanctions on the Iranian oil minister, stressing that it is impossible to halt the country’s crude exports.
In a post on her X account, Fatemeh Mohajerani hailed the Iranian Oil Ministry as one of the main ministries on the front line against Western pressures.
She said the fact that the U.S. has hastily imposed a sanction on Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad reveals that Washington is concerned about the Oil Ministry’s activities.
“The export of oil is unstoppable. We won’t give up Iran’s share in the global oil market,” she added.
The spokeswoman noted that the U.S. would have not needed to impose new sanctions or update them against Iran if the previous ones had been effective.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday designated Paknejad, accusing him of overseeing the export of tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil.