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Iran says US sanctions on supreme leader means 'permanent closure' of diplomacy

Foreign ministry spokesman accuses Trump administration of destroying peace and security

Iran has said that a US decision to impose sanctions on the country’s supreme leader and other top officials permanently closed the path to diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.

“Imposing useless sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the commander of Iran’s diplomacy (foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif) is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy,” foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet on Tuesday.

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