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Iran ‘not open for business’, US says

US officials declared Tuesday that Iran is “not open for business” and vowed to scrutinize the companies heading to the Islamic republic since it entered a temporary nuclear agreement, AFP reported.
“Tehran is not open for business because our sanctions relief is quite temporary, quite limited and quite targeted,” Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“It doesn’t matter whether the countries are friend or foe — if they evade our sanctions, we will sanction them،” she said.
David Cohen, the Treasury Department official in charge of the sanctions, said that the United States would “vigorously” enforce sanctions.
Senator Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has distanced himself from fellow Democrat Obama on Iran, demanded that any final deal with Tehran include the dismantling of “large portions of its nuclear infrastructure.”
“We have placed our incredibly effective international sanctions regime on the line without clearly defining the parameters of what we expect in a final agreement,” Menendez said.

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