A member of the Iranian parliament’s Resistance fraction — a grouping of ultraconservative lawmakers — has called for sanctions on US ships in the Persian Gulf, accusing Washington of escalating pressure during ongoing nuclear talks.
“If they are going to impose sanctions on us one after another during negotiations to prevent us from exporting oil, we should also sanction their ships in the region and stop them from entering the Persian Gulf to take oil,” said Ghassem Ravanbakhsh.
“We are negotiating to lift sanctions, but what kind of negotiation is this where after four rounds, sanctions have only increased?” he said. “We are not the type to flip the table, but this nonsense that Trump and Witkoff are saying is what disrupts the talks.”