Iran’s foreign ministry denounced the latest U.S. Treasury sanctions as “fruitless and senseless” in a statement issued Wednesday.
“These fruitless, senseless and ineffective sanctions… will undoubtedly never achieve the desired outcome of their designers and enforcers,” it said.
“Sooner or later they will become aware of the futility of their schemes.”
Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Tehran Tuesday, accusing it of creating a complex web of Russian cut-out companies and Syrian intermediaries to ship oil to Damascus, which in turn bankrolled Hezbollah and Hamas.
The U.S. considers both Hezbollah, and Hamas, the Palestinian movement that controls the Gaza Strip, to be terrorist organizations.
The U.S. Treasury said in a statement that Tehran, “working with Russian companies, provides millions of barrels of oil to the Syrian government” of President Bashar Assad.
“The Assad regime, in turn, facilitates the movement of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp – Qods Force for onward transfer to Hamas and Hezbollah,” it said, referring ato Iran’s main foreign military operations unit.